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Press Release: COP29 Gives Entry to Carbon Markets Making A Dangerous Step Backward for Climate Justice
Press Release: At COP29 Threat of Carbon Markets Looms Large
PRESS RELEASE: Disastrous Start to COP29 As Countries Bulldoze Ahead with Carbon Markets Paving Way for Risky Geoengineering Technofixes
PRESS RELEASE: A Big Win As UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP16 Reaffirms Geoengineering is a Risk| NOTA DE PRENSA: La COP16 del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica de la ONU reafirma que la geoingeniería es un riesgo
Press Release: COP16 Still Has Opportunity to Address Geoengineering Risks | Nota de prensa: La COP16 aún tiene la oportunidad de abordar los riesgos de la geoingeniería
Press Release: At COP16 Civil Society Calls for CBD’s Leadership in Addressing Geoengineering Risks
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Grounding Teach-In on Geoengineering: A False Solution to the Climate Crisis
This (101) session critically unpacked, from a climate justice perspective, three intersections of geoengineering: its techno-financial /deterministic roots and ideology, human rights and social justice questions, and finally, global governance and sovereignty. Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group, Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and Dr. Max Ajl, Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty (OSAE) led the teach-in which was loosely facilitated by the HOME campaign coordinator, Ruth Nyambura.
Don't Geoengineer Africa! African CSOs Mobilising Against New Threats to Mother Earth (English)
The Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance organized a webinar on Earth Day to highlight the threats of geoengineering in the continent. Speakers included Mfoniso Antia, Hands off Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF),
Kwami Kponzo, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Erica Njuguna, Climate justice organizer & campaigner, Mary Church, Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Ubrei-Joe Maimoni, Friends of the Earth Africa (FoEA). Josue Aruna, CBCS moderated.
Geoengineering the Ocean is Not a Climate Solution
Outdoor experiments are going ahead in defiance of the CBD decisions and the drive for restrictive regulation under the London Convention/London Protocol, while negotiations under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risk legitimising and entrenching these highly speculative, risky techniques. Watch our experts unpack this issue further with Lisa Levin, Scripps Oceanography, David Santillo, Greenpeace International, Panganga Pungowiyi, Indigenous Environmental Network and Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group Moderator: Eesha Rangani, HOME Alliance
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.
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.
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)
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