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HOME Alliance press releases
Press Release: Climate Justice Groups Urge Governments to Reject Risky Geoengineering Technofixes at UN Climate Talks
Press Release: Africa is Not A Laboratory - Civil Society Denounces Degrees Global Forum
Press Release: From Geoengineering The Ocean in Cornwall To A Vanishing Act
Press Release: Carbon Markets Are Not The Magic Pill To Scale Up Carbon Dioxide Removals
Press Release - Geoengineering Fails Again: Arctic Ice Project Shuts Down Over Ecological Concerns
Press Release: COP29 Gives Entry to Carbon Markets Making A Dangerous Step Backward for Climate Justice
🌍 Big Win as @UNBiodiversity COP16 Reaffirms Geoengineering is a Risk 🌍
— Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance (@HOMEAlliance_) November 2, 2024
🌱 This decision is a call to stop geoengineering experiments and prioritize real climate solutions that center communities, biodiversity, and peoples and communities over quick technofixes#COP16Colombia pic.twitter.com/iHHpTCBbfK
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HOME Alliance press releases
Press Release: Climate Justice Groups Urge Governments to Reject Risky Geoengineering Technofixes at UN Climate Talks
Press Release: Africa is Not A Laboratory - Civil Society Denounces Degrees Global Forum
Press Release: From Geoengineering The Ocean in Cornwall To A Vanishing Act
Press Release: Carbon Markets Are Not The Magic Pill To Scale Up Carbon Dioxide Removals
Press Release - Geoengineering Fails Again: Arctic Ice Project Shuts Down Over Ecological Concerns
Press Release: COP29 Gives Entry to Carbon Markets Making A Dangerous Step Backward for Climate Justice
HOME Alliance Press conferences
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
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
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
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.
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)
HOME Alliance Press conferences
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
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
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
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)
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.
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)
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.
HOME Alliance Statements
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).
