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November 21, 2025

PRESS RELEASE: HOME Alliance Slams COP30 Captured by Carbon Markets and Illusionary Fixes like Geoengineering

21 November, 2025 Belém, Brazil In a betrayal of Indigenous Peoples, climate justice movements and civil society, COP30 has been a profound failure. Instead of bold commitments to phase out fossil fuels and protect Indigenous Peoples, ecosystems and biodiversity, governments doubled down on carbon markets, biofuels, techno-fixes, and dangerous and...
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November 13, 2025

Press Release: At COP30 and Peoples Summit, Movements Declare Geoengineering Is An Illusion That Threatens Our Future

  Scroll below for Spanish and Portuguese | Desplácese hacia abajo para ver el español y el portugués | Role abaixo para espanhol e português  Press Release At COP30 and Peoples Summit Movements Declare Geoengineering Is An Illusion That Threatens Our Future             *Our Home Is Not a Laboratory*   13...
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September 26, 2025

Press Release: As Climate Week NYC Begins, Climate Justice Groups Urge Governor Newsom to Veto Risky Geoengineering Bill

26 September, 2025 New York City, USA As world leaders, climate activists, and communities gather for Climate Week New York, 23 climate justice organizations and networks, Indigenous Peoples groups and civil society are calling on California Governor Gavin Newsom to veto a bill SB 643  ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Program’...
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July 18, 2025

Press Release: African Climate Justice Movements Celebrate African Leadership in Rejecting Solar Geoengineering at AMCEN

18 July, 2025 Nairobi, Kenya   As the 20th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN20) comes to an end, climate justice groups and movements are celebrating African governments continued  leadership in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies. These extreme, risky and illusory schemes are being pushed on the African continent...
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July 11, 2025

Press Release - Don’t Geoengineer Africa: Civil Society Urges African Governments to Reject Dangerous Climate Technofixes at AMCEN

11 July, 2025 Nairobi, Kenya Ahead of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) next week, African civil society and climate justice groups and movements are issuing an urgent call to governments of the region to reject all forms of geoengineering on the African continent and globally. Africa faces...
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June 24, 2025

Press Release: Climate Justice Groups Urge Governments to Reject Risky Geoengineering Technofixes at UN Climate Talks

24 June 2025 Bonn, Germany As the UN climate talks SB62 in Bonn continue, civil society, Indigenous Peoples and climate justice groups are raising concerns about risky and speculative geoengineering technofixes that offer false promises and dangerous distractions in the guise of climate action.  Kwami Kpondzo, Global Forest Coalition and...

HOME Alliance Press conferences

1 November 2024

Press Conference: Geoengineering at CBD COP16: Week 2 Updates – United Nations Biodiversity Conference 2024

HOME Alliance Press conference at CBD COP16, featuring Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group, Mary Church, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Adrienne Aakaluk Titus, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)). Moderation by Tamra Gilbertson, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)). Link to CBD web-TV. 

24 October 2024

Press Conference: Geoengineering at CBD COP16: Week 1 Updates – United Nations Biodiversity Conference 2024

HOME Alliance Press conference at CBD COP16, featuring Silvia Ribeiro ETC Group, Mary Church, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Alejandro Jaimes, Alliance of Non Governmental Radical Youth (ANGRY) and Adrienne Aakaluk Titus, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN). Moderation by Coraina de la Plaza, HOME Alliance. Link to CBD web-TV.

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10 June 2024

Press Conference at UN Intersessions SB60 - Geoengineering: A Dangerous Climate Fix

HOME Alliance panel sharing how the geoengineering technofixes have been creeping up in UNFCCC negotiations, and how other UN spaces like the United Nations Environment Assembly, Convention on Biological Diversity are looking at it.

Featuring: Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group, Niclas Hällström, WhatNext?, Mary Church, CIEL, Panganga Pungowiyi, Indigenous Environmental Network and Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Boell Foundation (moderator)

17 November 2023

Press conference: HOME Alliance says no to 'removals' and geoengineering in UNFCCC Article 6.4

HOME Alliance Press conference at COP27, featuring Souparna Lahiri (GFC), Peg Putt (EPN / Biomass Working Group), Panganga Pungowiyi (IEN), Neth Daño (ETC Group), Nnimmo Bassey (HOMEF), Erika Lennon (CIEL). Link to UNFCCC web-TV.

 

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HOME Alliance Media advisories

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November 1, 2024
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Media Advisory: COP16 Still Has Opportunity to Address Geoengineering Risks | Aviso a los medios: La COP16 aún tiene la oportunidad de abordar los riesgos de la geoingeniería

(Abajo sigue la version en Español) Members of Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance will share insights into how the negotiations on geoengineering are unfolding as CBD COP16 with a focus on why geoengineering is a risk to biodiversity and climate, peoples...
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October 24, 2024
Press conference, Media advisory

Media Advisory - Geoengineering at CBD COP16: Updates from Week 1 / Aviso a los medios - Geoingeniería en la COP16 del CDB: Últimas noticias de la primera semana

(Abajo sigue la version en Español) Media Advisory Geoengineering at CBD COP16: Updates from Week 1 Members of Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance will share insights into the first week of CBD COP16 process with a focus on why...

HOME Alliance Statements

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June 8, 2025

Call for New Endorsements: HOME Alliance Statement to Halt Marine Geoengineering Experiments!

HOME Alliance's civil society statement on marine geoengineering is open for new endorsements!

This statement which was originally launched last year, urges governments to halt marine geoengineering and reflects key developments, including the 2024 reaffirmation of the global moratorium on geoengineering by parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

 

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May 29, 2024

HOME Alliance Statement on Marine Geoengineering Experiments

Photo: U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility/Flickr   We, civil society, Indigenous Peoples and grassroots organizations from around the world, are deeply concerned by the proliferation of open air and water marine geoengineering experiments that are planned or already underway, many of which are selling carbon...