Geoengineering

The term "geoengineering" encompasses various technologies aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change by intervening in Earth's systems. These technologies involve reflecting sunlight back into space or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They offer a potential solution for climate change but come with far-reaching social, political, and environmental risks.

Here you will find current articles, publications, and thematic focuses on geoengineering.

Recent Articles on Geoengineering

Ban Solar Geoengineering

Background

Countless scientists and experts have warned that solar geoengineering would give emitters an excuse not to end their fossil-fuel addictions and cause far-reaching unintended consequences.

Mohammed Usrof, Disha Ravi, Heleen Bruggink, Erica Njuguna

Zwei Personen stehen vor einer großen, industriellen Anlage mit mehreren Lüftern. Stahlträger und Rohre sind sichtbar.

UN climate talks could undermine precaution on geoengineering called for by the biodiversity convention

Analysis

UNFCCC negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risk legitimising dangerous Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) schemes and undermining precautionary work being undertaken in other UN fora.

Linda Schneider , Silvia Ribeiro

Kugel vor dem Gebäude des Sicherheitsrates der Vereinten Nationen in New York

UN-Science Summit: Countries Call for the Non-Use of Solar Geoengineering

Analysis

Recent developments at the 79th United Nations General Assembly and its accompanying Science Summit signal a growing political momentum toward restricting the development and potential deployment of solar geoengineering technologies.

Heleen Bruggink, Carol Bardi

Solar geoengineering at COP 28

Analysis

In the upcoming UNEA6 meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, to be held between February 26 and March 1st, Switzerland has proposed a resolution to advance global talks on controversial solar radiation manipulation techniques.

Carol Bardi

Screenshot aus Erklärfilm: Ein Technofix für das Klima? Land-basiertes Geoengineering (BECCS)

Delay, Distract and Deceive: BECCS Developments in South America, Africa and Asia

Analysis

Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies are among the most problematic in carbon removal geoengineering. Part two of our series analyses the status of BECCS in South America, Africa, and Asia.

Coraina de la Plaza, Kwami Kpondzo, Souparna Lahiri

All Articles on Geoengineering

Thematic Focuses on Geoengineering

Radical Realism for Climate Justice

Geoengineering

Dossier on the UN Biodiversity Conference in Cancún (CBD COP 13)

All Thematic Focuses on Geoengineering

Publications on Geoengineering

Who Funds and Who Pays:

Study

Private tech money is rapidly accelerating solar geoengineering research. Funding has increased more than tenfold since 2020, largely from the US and UK. Who shapes decisions on these high-risk technologies – investors or democratic debate?

Jared Sanborn, J. P. Sapinski

Geoengineering Briefing: Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx)

Briefing on the details and possible impacts of the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment - a planned experiment in a form of geoengineering known as Solar Radiation Management (SRM). SRM aims to block or reflect sunlight before it reaches the earth’s atmosphere.

What is wrong with Solar Radiation Management?

A briefing explaining why Solar Radiation Management (SRM) experiments are a bad idea. SRM describes a set of geoengineering techniques that aim to counter human-made climate change by artificially increasing the reflection of heat from sunlight (solar radiation) back into space.

All Publications on Geoengineering

Geoengineering

Recent Articles on Geoengineering

Ban Solar Geoengineering

UN climate talks could undermine precaution on geoengineering called for by the biodiversity convention

UN-Science Summit: Countries Call for the Non-Use of Solar Geoengineering

Solar geoengineering at COP 28

Delay, Distract and Deceive: BECCS Developments in South America, Africa and Asia

Thematic Focuses on Geoengineering

Radical Realism for Climate Justice

Geoengineering

Dossier on the UN Biodiversity Conference in Cancún (CBD COP 13)

Publications on Geoengineering

Who Funds and Who Pays:

Geoengineering Briefing: Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx)

What is wrong with Solar Radiation Management?

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