Africa Is Not a Solar Geoengineering Test Site Published: 4 July 2025 Article Outside actors are increasingly looking to test speculative climate fixes such as solar geoengineering in African countries. But this potentially dangerous course of action would divert financing and support from real solutions.
Governing the Big Bad Fix? What to do about geoengineering Published: 29 January 2018 Geoengineering – large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s natural systems – is increasingly being presented as a strategy to counteract, dilute or delay climate change. Which international legal norms and agreements would contradict the different measures? By Duncan Currie
The geoengineering fallacy Published: 17 October 2017 Geoengineering technologies are not yet deployable globally, but support for them is advancing fast, thanks to backing by powerful advocates eager to start experiments. But no silver bullet for climate change exists, and we must not abandon proven methods for the sake of a promise that one will be found. By Barbara Unmüßig