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October 2, 2024
Press Release: CSOs Gathered in New York Reiterate Geoengineering Is Not a Climate Fix
2 October, 2024 New York, USA As New York Climate Week, UN Science Summit and UN General Assembly come to a close, climate justice civil society groups and networks, Indigenous Peoples, and academics are deeply concerned about the increasing push to embrace geoengineering technofixes as climate solutions. Silvia Ribeiro, Latin...
June 10, 2024
HOME! Alliance Press Release – Geoengineering: A Dangerous Climate Fix
Bonn, Germany – At a press conference held today at UNFCCC pre-COP29 climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, civil society organizations raised concerns that Geoengineering is a risky facade that is being used to divert attention away from the urgent need to address the root causes of climate crisis. As the...
May 30, 2024
Press Release: Geoengineering our oceans needs to be halted
On UN World Oceans Day, over 100 civil society organizations including NGOs, Indigenous Peoples’ groups, climate justice networks and social justice movements from across the world have signaled their deep concern about the growing number of open air and water marine geoengineering experiments in defiance of international agreements, calling...
March 21, 2024
The HOME Alliance celebrates the defeat of a high-profile solar geoengineering experiment
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 project...
February 29, 2024
Withdrawn resolution on solar geoengineering at UNEA-6 is a “victory for common sense”, says HOME Alliance
Nairobi, Kenya – In the early hours of this morning at the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) a resolution on solar geoengineering was withdrawn. Numerous African countries, along with many others from the Global South, advocated for the Assembly to reaffirm a precautionary approach to geoengineering, as...
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July 1, 2024
UN Climate Talks: Setting Sail to Plunder the Ocean
Opinion piece by Mary Church, Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance, originally posted by IPSnews.net
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...
March 13, 2024
Don't Geoengineer Africa
This HOME! Alliance Policy Brief has been published by the HOME Africa working group on Geoengineering, and was distributed to delegates at the 6th United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi in February 2024. You can download the briefing in English (the French version will be available soon) or read it in full below.
February 9, 2022
Join global experts in calling on the UN for a solar geoengineering non-use agreement
A few weeks ago, 100+ concerned academics worldwide called for a Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering, asking governments to declare not to fund or deploy the development of solar geoengineering technologies. Many concerned scholars, such as Prof Frank Biermann, Dr Jeroen Oomen, Prof Aarti Gupta and others, who initiated the...
December 22, 2020
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 in Kiruna, Sweden, with the Swedish Space Corporation. Because of the serious environmental, social...
June 17, 2020
California Government Backs Away from Solar Geoengineering Project – but Doesn’t Withdraw
The California State government is looking to distance itself from a controversial solar geoengineering project after pressure from civil society and movement groups around the world. Last July, the California Strategic Growth Council – a part of the California State government with direct ties to Governor Gavin Newsom’s office –...
August 21, 2019
Open Letter to SCoPEx Advisory Committee
To: Louise Bedsworth, Executive Director, California Strategic Growth Council (Chair) Kevin Knobloch, Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Energy (Vice Chair) Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School Michael Kleeman, Visiting Scholar, University of California San Diego and Senior Fellow, UC Institute on Global Conflict...
UNFCCC Article 6.4: No to legitimizing geoengineering and land-based offsets
Paris Agreement Article 6 is designed to allow Parties to engage in cooperative activities “to allow for higher ambition.” The Supervisory Body for the 6.4 mechanism – the successor to the Clean Development Mechanism – has been tasked to bring forward a set of workable rules governing much of the...
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November 17, 2022
PRESS CONFERENCE: HOME Alliance says no to ‘removals’ and geoengineering in UNFCCC Article 6.4
HOME Alliance members - Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), ETC Group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) press conference at COP27.
July 14, 2021
Say no to Solar Geoengineering
Short video (2.18 min) with snapshots from the 3-hour session on the Dangers of Solar Geoengineering, organised by the HOME Alliance and several of its Member organisations. Activists and scientists share their warnings about the risks of solar geoengineering. Featuring Greta Thunberg, Michael Mann, Vandana Shiva, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Bill McKibben, Jennie Stephens, Naomi Klein, Tom Goldtooth, and Åsa Larsson Blind.
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July 1, 2024
UN Climate Talks: Setting Sail to Plunder the Ocean
Opinion piece by Mary Church, Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance, originally posted by IPSnews.net
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...
March 13, 2024
Don't Geoengineer Africa
This HOME! Alliance Policy Brief has been published by the HOME Africa working group on Geoengineering, and was distributed to delegates at the 6th United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi in February 2024. You can download the briefing in English (the French version will be available soon) or read it in full below.
February 9, 2022
Join global experts in calling on the UN for a solar geoengineering non-use agreement
A few weeks ago, 100+ concerned academics worldwide called for a Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering, asking governments to declare not to fund or deploy the development of solar geoengineering technologies. Many concerned scholars, such as Prof Frank Biermann, Dr Jeroen Oomen, Prof Aarti Gupta and others, who initiated the...
December 22, 2020
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 in Kiruna, Sweden, with the Swedish Space Corporation. Because of the serious environmental, social...
June 17, 2020
California Government Backs Away from Solar Geoengineering Project – but Doesn’t Withdraw
The California State government is looking to distance itself from a controversial solar geoengineering project after pressure from civil society and movement groups around the world. Last July, the California Strategic Growth Council – a part of the California State government with direct ties to Governor Gavin Newsom’s office –...
August 21, 2019
Open Letter to SCoPEx Advisory Committee
To: Louise Bedsworth, Executive Director, California Strategic Growth Council (Chair) Kevin Knobloch, Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Energy (Vice Chair) Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School Michael Kleeman, Visiting Scholar, University of California San Diego and Senior Fellow, UC Institute on Global Conflict...
UNFCCC Article 6.4: No to legitimizing geoengineering and land-based offsets
Paris Agreement Article 6 is designed to allow Parties to engage in cooperative activities “to allow for higher ambition.” The Supervisory Body for the 6.4 mechanism – the successor to the Clean Development Mechanism – has been tasked to bring forward a set of workable rules governing much of the...
Solar radiaton manipulation
Blocking the sun by adding reflecting particles in the sky, on land or in oceans
Carbon dioxide removal
Removing carbon by using huge tracts of land and risky technologies
Weather modification
Manipulating weather systems to mitigate climate impacts
Learn more at the Geoengineering Monitor website!
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org
Track geoengineering projects with the Geoengineering Map!
www.map.geoengineeringmontior.org
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