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Biochar: A Critical Perspective
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.
False Solutions Alert: Geoengineering in Climate Negotiations
Fuel to the Fire
Recent news and events
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 America Director for ETC Group said, "We all agree we are in a serious climate crisis, but speculative geoengineering proposals...
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...
Inviting Journalists for HOME! Alliance’s Workshop on Geoengineering and COP Negotiations
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...
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...
The Dangers of Geoengineering as a Response to Climate Change
Hybrid Panel Presentation and Audience Q&A
A this hybrid event a panel of experts will lay out the current science and politics of solar and marine geoengineering and discuss the extraordinary risks associated with various geoengineering technologies. Attendees will learn more about how international treaties and federal governments are (or aren’t) stepping in to regulate geoengineering experiments, and engage with panelists in a discussion about how the environmental movement, policy makers, funders, and advocates should react to the proliferation of geoengineering...
A this hybrid event a panel of experts will lay out the current science and politics of solar and marine geoengineering and discuss the extraordinary risks associated with various geoengineering technologies. Attendees will learn more about how international treaties and federal governments are (or aren’t) stepping in to regulate geoengineering experiments, and engage with panelists in a discussion about how the environmental movement, policy makers, funders, and advocates should react...
Geoengineering governance event at Science Summit at Summit of the Future
Solar geoengineering, also called Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), refers to a set of speculative technologies that seek to artificially cool the planet by intervening into the earth’s climate systems. One of the most discussed options is the massive injection of sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect some incoming sunlight back out into space, in order to have a cooling effect. While some see solar geoengineering as a potential future...
Solar geoengineering, also called Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), refers to a set of speculative technologies that seek to artificially cool the planet by intervening into the earth’s climate systems. One of the most discussed options is the massive injection of sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect some incoming sunlight back out into space, in order to have a cooling effect. While some see solar geoengineering as a potential future...
HOME Alliance civil society statement on Marine Geoengineering
More than 100 organisation have issued a statement voicing their concerns about the proliferation of open air and water marine geoengineering experiments that are planned or already underway, many of which are selling carbon offsets, in defiance of international agreements. Increasingly, our oceans are at threat not only from the impacts of overexploitation and the climate crisis, but also from these misguided attempts to manipulate earth systems with the aim of countering some of the...
More than 100 organisation have issued a statement voicing their concerns about the proliferation of open air and water marine geoengineering experiments that are planned or already underway, many of which are selling carbon offsets, in defiance of international agreements. Increasingly, our oceans are at threat not only from the impacts of overexploitation and the climate crisis, but also from these misguided attempts to manipulate earth systems with the aim...
SCopEx project terminated
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...
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...
Alameda Victory
City councils orders solar geoengineers to stop outdoor experimentation
In the early hours of this morning, City of Alameda City Council members voted unanimously to call off the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening Project (MCBP), which had been conducting a geoengineering experiment off the coast of California. The city council had halted the tests a few weeks ago following the revelation that they were being carried out without public notice or any sort of review by the council. This morning’s decision to deny...
In the early hours of this morning, City of Alameda City Council members voted unanimously to call off the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening Project (MCBP), which had been conducting a geoengineering experiment off the coast of California. The city council had halted the tests a few weeks ago following the revelation that they were being carried out without public notice or any sort of review by the council....
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HOME Alliance webinars and teach-ins
11 May 2024
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
11 May 2024
La Geoingeniería De Los Océanos No Es Una Solución Climática
11 May 2024
La Géo-ingénierie Des Océans N'est Pas Une Solution Climatiques
24 April 2024
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.
24 April 2024
Ne géo-ingénierie pas l'Afrique! African CSOs mobilize against new threats to Mother Earth
9 June 2021
Solar geoengineering: Warnings from scientists, Indigenous peoples and climate activists
Watch full event (2,5 hrs)
Featuring 3 scientists (Michael Mann, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Jennie Stephens) and 6 activists (Tom Goldtooth, Naomi Klein, Åsa Larsson Blind, Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Greta Thunberg)
1 October 2020
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.
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Bank of evidence on climate false solutions: Part 2 on the negative impacts of geoengineering
This is the second part of the above "Bank of evidence on climate false solutions" collection of media articles, investigations and reports documenting the impacts of climate false solutions on communities and ecosystems around the world.
Part 2 covers geoengineering, including Carbon Capture (Utilisation) and Storage, Bioenergy and Carbon Capture and Storage, Direct Air (Carbon) Capture (and Storage), Solar Radiation Management or Modification, and Marine Geoengineering.
Biochar: A Critical Perspective
Solar Geoengineering is a Dangerous Distraction
At the most recent United Nations Environment Assembly, Africa’s leaders helped shoot down a resolution that called for more research into the benefits and risks of solar radiation modification. They identified the dangers of entertaining this fantasy and emphasized the need for effective and equitable climate solutions.
Recommended reading – Other relevant resources
Articles, books and more from academia, UN, organisations, media
Overshoot Commission’s veneer of neutrality is solar radiation modification PR by stealth
This article exposes the fundamental flaws of the Climate Overshoot Commission and its report, including how it attempts to legitimise and normalise solar geoengineering, under the guise and pretence of 'neutrality'. The Climate Overshoot Commission was heavily criticised by both civil society, academics and several members and youth associated with the Commission - several whom decided to resign. While presenting itself with the appearance of a UN body (even mimicking the UNFCCC logo), the Commission was populated and run by pro-geoengineers from its very start.
African Countries Call for the Non-Use of Solar Geoengineering in UN Environment Assembly
Article by professors Aarti Gupta and Frank Biermann, published through the Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement initiative, with reflections on the UNEA 6 and African leadership in the negotiations around the controversial resolution on solar geoengineering
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
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Real solutions
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Deep transformation
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