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Campaign against SCoPEx

Just three weeks after Global South countries successfully blocked a dangerous push to legitimize solar geoengineering [1] at the 6th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA6) in Nairobi, Harvard University has announced the cancellation of the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment, also known as SCoPEx, following years of international pressure.

The website "www.stopsolargeo.org" provides arguments, facts and materials from the Swedish fight against SCoPEx in Northern Sweden, and resources for continuous and scaled up mobilisation against advancement of solar geoengineering anywhere in the world.

Letter to Harvard University by the Saami Council calling for the shutting down of the SCoPEx project.

Read this recent letter by the Saami Council, co-signed by indigenous peoples organisations around the world, calling for Harvard to shut down the SCoPEx geoengineering project.

Individuals and organisations around the world can express their support by signing up on the Saami Council website.

The letter begins with:

Indigenous Peoples’ put our relationship with nature and our environment at the center. We are taught to take a holistic approach in all we do because everything on earth is interlinked to each other. Functioning ecosystems requires nature and its resources to be managed with great care for it to be preserved and passed onto future generations.

Climate manipulation strongly contradicts our understanding and experience of how to respect and live in harmony with nature, and therefore, this technology is not something we see as a part of our chosen future.

We, the signatories of this letter, call on Harvard University to shut down the SCoPEx project. As representatives of Indigenous Peoples, we do not approve legitimizing development towards solar geoengineering technology, nor for it to be conducted on our lands and territories anywhere.

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