Geoengineering

Dossiers

Geoengineering

Published: 9 October 2017

Our web dossier sheds light on the risks of geoengineering for human rights, indigenous and community rights, peace and democracy, food security, biodiversity and ecosystem integrity.

Articles

Ban Solar Geoengineering

Published: 17 January 2025

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.

By Mohammed Usrof, Disha Ravi, Heleen Bruggink and 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

Published: 7 November 2024

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.

By Linda Schneider and 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

Published: 29 October 2024

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.

By Heleen Bruggink and Carol Bardi

Solar geoengineering at COP 28

Published: 26 February 2024

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.

By 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

Published: 30 November 2023

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.

By Coraina de la Plaza, Kwami Kpondzo and Souparna Lahiri

Aufmacherbild zu Erklärfilm: Ein Technofix für das Klima? Land-basiertes Geoengineering (BECCS)

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

Published: 27 November 2023

Analysis

Part one of our series analyses the status of BECCS in South America and Africa and shows that BECCS is far from being the silver bullet to climate change that some actors portray it to be.

By Coraina de la Plaza, Kwami Kpondzo and Souparna Lahiri

High-risk geoengineering technologies won’t reverse climate breakdown

Published: 21 March 2022

Commentary

Techno fixes like carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management are no substitute for exiting coal, oil and gas – whatever polluters would like you to think.

By Linda Schneider

Net Zero Is Not Zero

Published: 8 November 2021

Analysis

Recent carbon-neutrality pledges may seem ambitious, but merely serve to promote a new set of false climate solutions under a different guise. Such pledges may persuade many people, but the climate isn’t buying it.

By Linda Schneider and Maureen Santos

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Publications

Geoengineering Briefing: Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx)

Published: 9 July 2018

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.

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What is wrong with Solar Radiation Management?

Published: 9 July 2018

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.

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The Big Bad Fix: The case against geoengineering

Published: 6 December 2017

Report

The “Big Bad Fix” provides a comprehensive overview of the key actors, technologies and fora relevant in the geoengineering discourse. It opposes geoengineering as a technofix for climate change and as a threat to world peace, democracy and human rights.

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Using Data and Technology to Solve Social, Environmental and Political Problems

Published: 28 November 2017

This essay adopts broader conceptual analysis on technology deployment for social change. It looks at how data-driven technologies are currently deployed to solve problems. And makes a case for why we cannot leave the challenges posed by data-driven technologies to technologists.

By Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski

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The risks of large-scale biosequestration in the context of Carbon Dioxide Removal

Published: 11 October 2017

The Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees is largely dependent on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches and climate finance institutions are already supporting such afforestation schemes. The report describes existing trends in the field of large-scale biosequestration and examines the social and ecological impacts of such projects.

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Geoengineering

Dossiers

Geoengineering

Articles

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

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

High-risk geoengineering technologies won’t reverse climate breakdown

Net Zero Is Not Zero

Publications

Geoengineering Briefing: Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx)

What is wrong with Solar Radiation Management?

The Big Bad Fix: The case against geoengineering

Using Data and Technology to Solve Social, Environmental and Political Problems

The risks of large-scale biosequestration in the context of Carbon Dioxide Removal

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