Geoengineering Monitor

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!

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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
#geoengineering

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:
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/we...

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

globaljusticeecology.org/breaking-gre...

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
www.akaction.org/webinars/202...

🗣️ 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

50,000 of your comments helped to defeat the largest proposed wood pellet biomass facility in California. This is a major step in the right direction!

Bad news for Drax and good news for forests in California as the state's biggest pellet project is cancelled. It was widely thought that Drax would played a key role had the project gone ahead. #AxeDrax

🌍 As governments gather for the UN climate change negotiations at UNFCCC SB62 in Bonn, Germany ahead of UN #COP30, HOME Alliance is calling attention to stopping dangerous distractions and false solutions like geoengineering technofixes.
🗓️ Join is for a series of events and a press conference

"While few doubt that ocean acidification is a real & growing problem, the concern is that the science behind geoengineering solutions, which manipulate the Earth’s natural processes to try to solve problems, is in its infancy. Yet 00s of millions of $ are being poured into enacting these solutions"

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding

This is why geoengineering "solutions" like limiting sunlight hitting Earth are fatally flawed.

Increased heat is just one consequence of carbon pollution.

Another is ocean acidification.

The cascading effects of biome collapse are dire and are happening.

theguardian.com/environment/...

Grateful for the opp to dive into geoengineering with Kate Cook on @matrixlaw.bsky.social ClimateJustice podcast

As these extremely risky ideas unfortunately gain traction (inc with UK govt x-ing major red line to fund outdoor experiments) they badly need exposure to critical scrutiny

🪼🐳🦀 Read our statement calling for an end to marine geoengineering experiments
ENG: bit.ly/4lgKU6v
SPA: bit.ly/3HuP7op
FR: bit.ly/3HuJCGi
#WorldOceansDay #Geoengineering #OceanProtection #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #HandsOffMotherEarth
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🌊 On #WorldOceansDay we are calling governments to halt dangerous marine geoengineering experiments that threaten ocean ecosystems and frontline communities
📖 👉 bit.ly/4kzpXnf
#StopGeoengineering #HandsOffOceans #UNOC2025 #MarineGeoengineering @ciel.org @cjaourpower.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social

Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations JAKARTA — Industrial plantations of trees to make paper and wood pellets are causing widespread and persistent environmental and social violations in Indonesia, despite claims to the contrary by the…

NGOs in Indonesia have documented widespread environmental and social violations across 33 industrial tree plantations since 2023, including deforestation, peatland destruction, fires, and land conflicts with Indigenous communities.

Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...

Climeworks' much lauded Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Iceland isn't even managing to offset its own emissions heimildin.is/grein/24581/...

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Degrees of deception: The perilous path of Solar Radiation Manipulation for Africa - Geoengineering Monitor Guest article by Kwami Kpondzo, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), and Josué Aruna, Congo Basin Conservation Society-Network

To participants of the @degrees.ngo Global Forum, we say: Listen to African voices. Respect our rejection of geoengineering and right to say no. Africa’s future must be shaped by Africans, not those seeking to experiment with our skies, lands and lives www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/degrees-of-d...

Degrees of deception: The perilous path of Solar Radiation Manipulation for Africa - Geoengineering Monitor Guest article by Kwami Kpondzo, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), and Josué Aruna, Congo Basin Conservation Society-Network

As the @degrees.ngo Global Forum unfolds in Cape Town, Kwami Kpondzo and Josué Aruna explain why they are confronting the looming danger of geoengineering technologies that threaten Africa's future www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/degrees-of-d...

#DGF2025 #geoengineering #Africa

1/ 🚨 Next week, the Degrees Global Forum takes place in South Africa to promote Solar Radiation Management (SRM)—a risky, unproven geoengineering technofix. African civil society is denouncing this as climate colonialism. Here's why. 🧵
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