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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...

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21 Nov HOME Alliance PR
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...

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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)

 

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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

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24 April 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

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17 November 2023

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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9 June 2021

Solar geoengineering: Warnings from scientists, Indigenous peoples and climate activists

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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)

HOME Alliance Press conferences

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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)

 

HOME Alliance webinars and teach-ins

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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

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24 April 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

Play Video

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)

Play Video

17 November 2023

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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November 1, 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. 

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October 24, 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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June 10, 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)

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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.

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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).

 

(w links) Home! Alliance Statement on Marine Geoengineering Experiments
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...