by Anja Chalmin The interactive geoengineering map, generated by ETC Group and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, documents geoengineering projects and experiments worldwide. An analysis of the data shows that on the African continent the topic „Geoengineering“ has...
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Looking back, moving into the future – a conversation with Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey
Our first podcast episode, which coincidentally is a year ender conversation, was with the respected Nigerian environmentalist, activist and poet, Nnimmo Bassey. This conversation speaks to the harsh realities of the year and carefully excavates the structural issues...
SCoPEx in Sweden: first step down the slippery slope of risky solar geoengineering experiments
Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Campaign Statement December 22, 2020 On December 15th, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), a solar geoengineering project of Harvard University, announced its plan to conduct part of a geoengineering experiment...
Sacrificing Antarctica with Geoengineering to Save Northern Cities from the Fossil Fuel Industry?
A new proposal to create trillions of tonnes of artificial snow and shoot them onto two west Antarctic glaciers is an outrageous distraction
Solar Radiation Management: Regional Briefings, Asia, Africa, Latin America
These briefings explore the potential consequences of using Solar Radiation Management (SRM) – a form of geoengineering being considered by some governments to address climate change. SRM is a set of technologies designed to reduce sunlight and lower temperatures....
Fire and Plantations in Portugal
by Oliver Munnion (This article was originally published by Science for the People.) Devastating wildfires are increasingly a feature of summers across the globe, and their intensity and scale have been linked directly to climate change in a number of recent...
Geoengineering in South Africa
[This article was reposted from HBF Southern Africa] In the wake of the 2015 Paris Agreement adopting “well below 2°C” as the international goal to limit global warming, geoengineering is increasingly being promoted as a technological means to counteract climate...
On eve of Trump inauguration, White House report calls for geoengineering research
The White House has released a report which for the first time recommends U.S. government-funded research into geoengineering. The report, which was submitted to Congress last week by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, falls short of calling for real-world...
Antarctic techno-fix cannot slow rising seas
by Tim Radford (Climate News Network) Pumping seawater onto the Antarctic landmass to form ice and stop sea levels rising stands little chance of success, scientists say. Sea level rise is likely to be a problem too big to handle. Geoengineers will not be able to...
Geoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in Japan
(ETC Group) NAGOYA, Japan – In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will close its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments. “Any private or public experimentation...