Join Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance for an exclusive online workshop for journalists covering climate justice, geoengineering, CBD COP16 and COP29. The workshop will be will be held in two timezones and will enable  journalists to build their capacity on geoengineering technofixes and raise awareness about the increasing focus on geoengineering in global climate policy discussions and its implications in upcoming UN summits CBD COP16 and UNFCCC COP29. Workshop Details: 📅 Date: 9 October...

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 America Director for ETC Group said, "We all agree we are in a serious climate crisis, but speculative geoengineering proposals that would mess with ocean...

The HOME Alliance celebrated earlier this year the cancellation of a high-profile solar geoengineering experiment, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment, also known as SCoPEx. This experiment sought to test a controversial geoengineering technique called Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), which aims to partially block sunlight from entering the Earth’s atmosphere by releasing pollutants high in the atmosphere. The impacts of solar geoengineering would be disastrous for the climate, environment, humanity and all life as we know...