Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance
Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance
What is geoengineering?
Geoengineering includes many different technologies. They are all risky, speculative and poised to be controlled by superpowers and wealthy corporations. They either attempt to remove already emitted greenhouse cases (CDR) or to reflect incoming sunlight (SRM). None address the root causes of climate change.
Marine geo-engineering
Dumping minerals, creating huge algae blooms and more...
Land-based geo-engineering
Causing massing land-grabs and ecosystem harm...
Atmosphere and space geo-engineering
Dimming the sun by deliberate pollution...
Geoengineering...
…is the large-scale and intentional, technological manipulation of the Earth’s oceans, land and atmosphere as a technological “fix” to the climate crisis
…does nothing to address greenhouse gas emissions or the root causes of climate change
….is based on the same thinking that have got us into the climate crisis in the first place
…relies on technologies that are risky, speculative and likely to introduce grave new threats
… exacerbates colonialism, inequality and (climate) injustices while growing the power of wealthy elites and corporations
…is a dangerous distraction that undermines real climate action and lets big polluters off the hook
What we need
Proven, real solutions
to the climate crisis
that are gender-just and rights-centred
A deep transformation
and overhaul of the current economic and financial system
Solidarity, equity and justice
at the local, national and global level
What does HOME Alliance do?
Our home, lands, oceans, and sky are not a laboratory for risky and manipulative planetary-scale technologies. Read why HOME Alliance has launched our renewed manifesto. Read and endorse the manifesto now!
Movement building
We mobilise movements across continents. We build power to champion real solutions and counter geoengineering.
Advocacy
We engage in policy spaces — from the local level to United Nations fora — to advocate for effective and precautionary international agreements to oppose the legitimisation of geoenegineering
Campaigning
We build and support campaigns against geoengineering projects and for sound policies and restrictive regulations and governance.
Narratives
We influence the public discourse by engaging in media and popular education work to counter efforts to normalise geoengineering.
The Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance rejects conspiracy theories and climate denialism
There is a conspiracy theory that claims that long-lasting vapor trails left by aircraft, often referred to as “chemtrails,” contain harmful substances intentionally released into the atmosphere for various undisclosed purposes. This unfounded theory mistakenly associates such trails with weather modification and solar geoengineering research. However, vapor trails are formed from aircraft exhaust, and are not connected to weather modification or solar geoengineering.
The spread of misinformation and disinformation has led to confusion about what geoengineering is. On top of this, the information available online relating to chemtrails and weather modification conspiracy theories can be traced back to political agendas that neither seek nor are compatible with climate and environmental justice and often go hand-in-hand with climate denialism. This further undermines the understanding of the climate crisis and the real solutions needed to confront it.
Our work at HOME Alliance and that of our members has no connection to such claims, nor does it endorse or lend any credibility to these unfounded theories.
Latest news
Press Release: Research Exposes How California Plans to Expand Reliance on Speculative Climate Technologies
*Fossil Fuel Industry and Big Tech Pushing The Agenda*
24 September, 2026 California, USA In a briefing report ‘Distract, Delay, Deceive: Fossil Fuels, Big Tech, and California’s Emerging Carbon Removal Economy’ launched today, civil society groups are raising alarm bells on how California climate authorities are leaning hard into selling the illusion that climate pollution can be cleaned up after the fact while simultaneously deprioritizing pursuing emissions reductions at source. The report by the international organization Biofuelwatch closely examines...
24 September, 2026 California, USA In a briefing report ‘Distract, Delay, Deceive: Fossil Fuels, Big Tech, and California’s Emerging Carbon Removal Economy’ launched today, civil society groups are raising alarm bells on how California climate authorities are leaning hard into selling the illusion that climate pollution can be cleaned up after the fact while simultaneously deprioritizing pursuing emissions reductions at source. The report by the international organization Biofuelwatch closely examines...
Press Release: ‘Green steel’ built on disappearing water and stolen land
Civil society calls for Aperam expansion to be halted
Português abaixo New report documents decades of land dispossession, water depletion, Cerrado destruction and conflict as Aperam receives €250 million financing package 21 September, 2026 — A new, in-depth investigation published today exposes the devastating social and environmental costs of Aperam BioEnergia’s monoculture eucalyptus plantations in Minas Gerais, Brazil, which it uses to produce charcoal, biochar and “green steel”. The co-authors of the investigation have issued an urgent call for...
Português abaixo New report documents decades of land dispossession, water depletion, Cerrado destruction and conflict as Aperam receives €250 million financing package 21 September, 2026 — A new, in-depth investigation published today exposes the devastating social and environmental costs of Aperam BioEnergia’s monoculture eucalyptus plantations in Minas Gerais, Brazil, which it uses to produce charcoal, biochar and “green steel”. The co-authors of the investigation have issued an urgent call for...
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Call for Applications for HOME Alliance Media Fellowship Program: Investigating Geoengineering - Experimenting on Our Land, Ocean and Sky
Call for Applications HOME Alliance Media Fellowship Program Investigating Geoengineering: Experimenting on Our Land, Ocean and Sky Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance is excited to announce the second edition of our Media Fellowship Program, supporting journalists to critically examine geoengineering and its growing presence in climate discourse. This year’s fellowship will focus on land-based, marine and solar geoengineering approaches, encouraging deeper, more specialised investigations into how these technologies are...
Call for Applications HOME Alliance Media Fellowship Program Investigating Geoengineering: Experimenting on Our Land, Ocean and Sky Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance is excited to announce the second edition of our Media Fellowship Program, supporting journalists to critically examine geoengineering and its growing presence in climate discourse. This year’s fellowship will focus on land-based, marine and solar geoengineering approaches, encouraging deeper, more specialised investigations into how these technologies are...
Press Release: Blue Economy And Marine Geoengineering Threats - Stop Commodifying, Experimenting And Exploiting Our Oceans
Press Release Blue Economy And Marine Geoengineering Threats: Stop Commodifying, Experimenting And Exploiting Our Oceans 12 June 2026 Bonn, Germany Civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples, and climate justice groups gathered today at the UN climate negotiations SB64 to raise urgent concerns over blue economy initiatives and the growing push for marine geoengineering. Framed as climate solutions, these approaches are false solutions and dangerous distractions that...
Press Release Blue Economy And Marine Geoengineering Threats: Stop Commodifying, Experimenting And Exploiting Our Oceans 12 June 2026 Bonn, Germany Civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples, and climate justice groups gathered today at the UN climate negotiations SB64 to raise urgent concerns over blue economy initiatives and the growing push for marine geoengineering. Framed as climate solutions, these approaches are false solutions and dangerous distractions that...
Media Advisory: Blue Economy And Marine Geoengineering Threats - Stop Commodifying, Experimenting And Exploiting Our Oceans
Media Advisory Blue Economy And Marine Geoengineering Threats: Stop Commodifying, Experimenting And Exploiting Our Oceans 12 June 2026 | 11.30 AM CEST Civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples and climate justice groups will hold a press conference at the UN climate negotiations SB64 expressing concerns with the expansion of false solutions like blue economy initiatives advanced under the guise of climate action, and raise alarm over risky...
Media Advisory Blue Economy And Marine Geoengineering Threats: Stop Commodifying, Experimenting And Exploiting Our Oceans 12 June 2026 | 11.30 AM CEST Civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples and climate justice groups will hold a press conference at the UN climate negotiations SB64 expressing concerns with the expansion of false solutions like blue economy initiatives advanced under the guise of climate action, and raise alarm over risky...
