Geoengineering Monitor

NGOs urge Brazil to prevent fossil fuel capture of COP30 climate summit NGOs urge Brazil to keep fossil fuel firms out of COP30 More than 200 civil society groups are asking Brazil's COP30 team to commit to "polluter-free" climate negotiations in Belém

More than 200 civil society groups—including Global Forest Coalition—are asking Brazil’s COP30 team to commit to “polluter-free” climate negotiations in Belém www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/01/c... #KickBigPollutersOut #COP30

Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...

#Geoengineering is not the way to address #climatechange in the polar regions!

Our review of the 5 most prominent polar geoengineering ideas concludes that none are viable. Instead, they are environmentally dangerous and have major governance & ethics issues

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Polar Geoengineering: A Risky Experiment That Will Not Fix Climate Change Earth’s climate is warming because we burn fossil fuels for electricity, transport, heating, and food production, and this releases greenhouse gases. The polar regions (the Arctic and Antarctic) are w...

Want to explain #polarClimate and why #Geoengineering doesn't belong there to kids? Try this excellent Frontiers for Young Minds piece by @helenmillman.bsky.social et al:

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Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions Some geoengineering schemes are clearly designed to allow the destructive fossil fuel industry to keep operating.

#GeoEngineering. What could go wrong 🤔? #idiots

Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions

Some are clearly designed to allow the destructive fossil fuel industry to keep operating. #climatecrisis #FossilFuels #canada #moronicmark #atmosphere

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#Geoengineering is being sold as a climate “plan B.”
🚫 It’s a #biodiversity death sentence.

Our new blog breaks down why these unproven, massive-scale tech interventions—from spraying aerosols to dumping biomass in the deep sea—will accelerate ecological collapse, not prevent it.

To date, the total estimated amount of the military and conflict-related climate reparations owed by Israel and its allies to the Palestinian people since the Nakba is US$148 billion. www.palclimateinstitute.org/media/milita... #palestine #gaza #climate

YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Action New York Climate Week 2025: Front-Line Communities Resist Marine Geoengineering

This panel spotlights resistance to marine geoengineering from coastal and Indigenous communities on the front lines. Hear @ienearth.bsky.social @ciel.org @foeus.bsky.social @handsoffmotherearth.org and more ✊🏽 youtu.be/0UauVmqGdbE?...

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An investigation by POLITICO lifts the veil on how a “pilot” marine cloud brightening experiment in California abruptly shut down when local officials discovered it had been carried out without public notice.
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Underwater curtains and reflective beads are ‘unrealistic and dangerous polar geoengineering ideas’ Climate research group says such ideas are diverting attention from cutting fossil fuel use

A new analysis says #geoengineering schemes proposed for polar regions are so flawed that no amount of research could resolve them and that they treat only the symptoms and not the causes of the climate emergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great article! Points out that scientists say solar geoengineering technologies could affect weather patterns, agriculture and the provision of basic needs like food and water. The impacts are poorly understood and can never be fully known. 😨

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We’re launching a Civil Society Toolkit on Geoengineering — a must-have guide to understanding and resisting risky geoengineering scams 🌍
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Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Assoc. Prof. of Sustainability Law at the University of Amsterdam, Adjunct Prof. of Law at the University of Fiji & Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, on why she signed the Open Letter calling for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering 💬

Opinion | The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country on Earth Is Under Assault

The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country on Earth Is Under Assault —Ecuador www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

Important @politico.com article reveals plans & players behind last year's secretive Alameda #geoengineering experiment. Billionaire funders, steps to much larger tests but NO public discussion.

This is NOT the way! Secretive techno-fixes play right into the hands of petrofascism. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

Sketchy stuff indeed!

@realzeroeurope.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social

Grassroots victory over California wood pellet export scheme shows folly of burning biomass to capture carbon - Geoengineering Monitor Guest article By California resident Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch

Grassroots victory over California wood pellet export scheme shows folly of burning biomass to capture carbon

Guest article by @vozsilvestre.bsky.social

The failure of a proposal to bring the export-oriented wood pellet sector to CA exposes the global unviability of BECCS schemes
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What is Geoengineering? - Geoengineering Monitor Geoengineering refers to large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere with the aim of reducing the effects of climate change, usually

What is #geoengineering?

It’s in the news lately, but what does it really mean?

🔎 Geoengineering = large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere to temporarily reduce the effects of climate change. It’s a false climate solution

www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/what-is-geoe...

Pulling Back the Curtain: Taking on False Solutions — Real Zero Europe

❌ These technologies and narratives risk diverting attention and resources away from real climate action!

🔗 Watch the full recording and view the slides here:
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ICYMI, part 1 on the risky distraction that is #geoengineering

A must-listen on #geoengineering 🤓

NEW from Breaking Green: When Arctic Climate “Solutions” Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi

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Carbon Capture and Storage: A Dangerous Distraction | ACAT Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process designed to collect carbon dioxide generated by high-emission activities, such as coal or gas power production or plastics manufacturing…

🗓️ Webinar July 16 at 2pm EST by Alaska Community Action on Toxics: Carbon Capture and Storage, a Dangerous Distraction
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🗣️ Speakers from @ienearth.bsky.social & @biologicaldiversity.org will explain how CCS continues a legacy of extractive harm

#fossilfuels #climate

UPCOMING #Webinar!🖥️

ACAT & @che-healthenv.bsky.social will present "Carbon Capture and Storage: A Dangerous Distraction."

Speakers will explain how CCS is a false climate solution that prolongs our reliance on fossil fuels and enables industry to continue polluting.

akaction.org/webinars/202...

Africa Is Not a Solar Geoengineering Test Site Chukwumerije Okereke & Nnimmo Bassey warn that experimenting with speculative technologies on the continent is a grave act of climate injustice.

Solar #geoengineering is a gamble with the future of the continent and the planet, a grave act of climate injustice and an affront to African leaders, many of whom have publicly expressed their concern www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

A victory against #bioenergy! 🙌

Contrary to misguided assumptions about the carbon impacts of bioenergy processes, #BECCS will never be able to effectively remove greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. It would exacerbate climate chaos and lead to wide-spread food insecurity and conflicts over land

Good news from the struggle to stop big biomass in California

Golden State Natural Resources pulls the plug on their poorly conceived proposal to bring global wood pellet industry villains like Drax to our state

🔭 African scientists are increasingly being drawn into initiatives largely funded and shaped by actors in the Global North. The result is growing asymmetry: African researchers provide knowledge, data, legitimacy but real decisions are made elsewhere.
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In the latest episode of "A Common Concern: The #Climate Justice #Podcast", CIEL’s Mary Church @mmchch.bsky.social and Kate Cook of @matrixlaw.bsky.social unpack the environmental, social & economic risks of #geoengineering tech.

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#ClimateJustice #CostlyIllusions