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📢 The Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance is on
@X
&
@LinkedIn
! Follow them for all the latest on the global struggle against
#geoengineering
and for
#climatejustice
⬇️
We at Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance are excited to launch our social media presence
Follow us 🤳 ➡️
X
@HOMEAlliance_
LinkedIn
YouTube
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Join us along with
@MichaelEMann
@ClimateBook
@jenniecstephens
@NaomiAKlein
@IENearth
@AsaLBlind
@billmckibben
@drvandanashiva
@GretaThunberg
for a virtual panel of leading scientists, leaders & climate activists.
#SayNo2SolarGeo
Link to RSVP:
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Why
#SayNo2SolarGeo
?
@GretaThunberg
@MichaelEMann
@drvandanashiva
@ClimateBook
@jenniecstephens
@NaomiAKlein
@billmckibben
@IENearth
&
@AsaLBlind
explain.
Support & sign the Indigenous
@SaamiCouncil
petition opposing Harvard's
#SolarGeo
experiments
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ARTICLE 6.4: The HOME Alliance is calling on the CMA under the
#UNFCCC
to keep geoengineering and other ‘removals’ out of carbon markets and the Paris Agreement. Read the statement:
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SOLAR GEOENGINEERING: Warnings from Scientists, Indigenous Peoples, Youth and Climate Activists
📅 June 9
11am EDT
@MichaelEMann
@ClimateBook
@jenniecstephens
12pm EDT Tom Goldtooth
@NaomiAKlein
Åsa Larson-Blind
@billmckibben
@drvandanashiva
@GretaThunberg
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Next Thursday (1st October) - A Grounding Teach-In on Geoengineering Technologies: A False Solution to the Climate Crisis.
Max Ajl
@maxajl
, Silvia Ribeiro
@ETC_Group
and Tom Goldtooth
@IENearth
will take us through three intersections of geoengineering technologies.
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"Through its expensive and harmful bioenergy with CCS scheme (
#BECCS
), Drax will impose a triple cost on taxpayers in the form of public money for subsidies, higher energy bills, and more extreme weather"
@ejfoundation
in
@BylineTimes
#geoengineering
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The
@CityofAlameda
Council has just voted unanimously to stop the University of Washington's
@SilverLiningNGO
-backed Marine Cloud Brightening Project (MCBP), which was the first open-ocean MCB
#geoengineering
experiment 2 take place in the US. More on MCB:
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"Geoengineering is a sign of industrial desperation"
- Panganga Pungowiyi
@IENearth
#UNFCCC
#Article6o4
#COP27
#FPIC
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📣Withdrawn resolution on solar
#geoengineering
at
#UNEA6
is a “victory for common sense”, says Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME!) Alliance - read the press statement here: 📣
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Is the state of California backing a controversial
#geoengineering
plan to block sunlight on a global scale and violate a moratorium backed by 196 countries?
@katenrg
says no, but
@LouiseBedsworth
is still chairing the
#SCoPEx
advisory committee.
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Further research & testing won't solve some of the biggest problems with solar geoengineering
- moral hazard
- millennial commitment
- termination shock
🌎Earth Day op-ed by
@MichaelEMann
and
@ClimateBook
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“Climate investments should not be handcuffed to corporate subsidies for fossil fuel development & unproven technologies that will poison our communities for decades” - Juan Jhong-Chung Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
@CJAOurPower
#CarbonCapture
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"We need a radical change in the way we produce energy. But decision makers are being seduced by ‘fixes’ promoted by the fossil fuel industry in an attempt to keep us locked into their failed model."
–
@foodandwater
has a new report on Carbon Capture.
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Read our analysis of this morning's Alameda City Council decision to put a stop to the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening
#geoengineering
experiment, by
@VozSilvestre
and
@HOMEAlliance_
's Eesha Rangani:
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How does geoengineering impact locally-led adaptation actions?
On Jan 26
@MsNyamburah
, HOME Campaign will host this discussion with Neth Daño,
@ETC_Group
; Sam Leiva,
@TerramChile
; Cynthia Mellon,
@CJAOurPower
and African Centre for Biodiversity. Register:
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"
#Geoengineering
our oceans is a dangerous distraction from the real solutions to the climate crisis", say over 70 civil society orgs. led by
@HOMEAlliance_
, ahead of the
#SB60
climate talks. Read the statement: & press release:
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In an open letter signed by 200+ organisations, we are asking the
@IPCC_CH
to to focus on real climate solutions & a rapid & equitable
#FossilPhaseOut
, not geoengineering technofixes like CDR and CCS.
📄
A short thread 👇
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In
#IceOnFire
,
@LeoDiCaprio
promotes geoengineering technologies that have been eloquently rebutted by his foundation (
@dicapriofdn
).
Geoengineering tech should not be mixed in with true solutions like organic farming and renewable energy.
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🌎 Our latest
#geoengineering
tech update on
#CarbonCapture
Use and Storage projects world-wide is hot off the press! "
#CCUS
is boosting corporate profits even though many schemes could actually result in more emissions" 🌏 Read it here:
#ClimateScam
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Explore our latest
#geoengineering
tech update, on
#CarbonCapture
and Storage projects globally: "Over-promising & under-delivering for half a century:
#CCS
is still a risky & unproven technology".
Watch this space for upcoming tech updates on CCUS & DAC!
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We're co-hosting a big panel to
#SayNo2SolarGeo
.
@NaomiAKlein
@IENearth
@AsaLBlind
@billmckibben
@drvandanashiva
@GretaThunberg
@MichaelEMann
@ClimateBook
@jenniecstephens
Wednesday June 9 11am EDT / 5pm CET
🎥Join us for the livestream:
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🐄Join us for a panel on false climate solutions like industrial livestock and nature-based solutions featuring Silvia Ribeiro from
@ETC_Group
among others!
July 27 15.30 - 17.00 CET
#FoodSystems4People
#UNFSS2021
Zoom link:
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#ClimateJustice
movement of Indigenous People, Women & Gender constituency, ENGOs and Civil Society Groups called for the end of
#FalseSolutions
: Land-based removals,
#geoengineering
&
#carbonmarkets
They’re false, they’re fake. Real solutions NOW!
#BonnClimateConference
#SB58
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Solar
#geoengineering
funding mainly from a core group of “at least 11 billionaires or billionaire-founded philanthropies, & a slew of wealthy individuals with direct ties to venture capital firms & billionaire-led hedge funds.”Great article in
@NoemaMag
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St Ives Bay in the UK is the first place that Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement, a marine
#geoengineering
technology, as been field tested—and it was done in secret. Read about how the local community has responded and resisted further open-ocean experiments:
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More than £30 billion in subsidies, more forest destruction and more community health impacts: Drax's
#BECCS
plans read more like a
#greenwashing
exercise than a climate solution. Our new guest article dives into all of the issues:
#geoengineering
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"The deflection of sunlight had a negative effect on the yields of many staple crops, including rice, wheat and maize. ... the resulting cooling would be “essentially negated” by the loss in crops due to the reduction in sunlight"
#Geoengineering
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Widespread opposition to solar geoengineering halts
#SCoPEx
test flight
@SaamiCouncil
@JoSandahl
@AsaLBlind
@ssnc_global
@FoEint
@greenpeaceSE
@ETC_Group
@biofuelwatch
@ciel_tweets
@CJAOurPower
@IENearth
@boell_stiftung
@jordensvanner
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Our open letter, signed by 30+ groups spanning five continents, calls on the
#SCoPEx
advisory committee to withdraw from their roles and support global, transparent, democratic governance of all geoengineering.
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Open letter from 41 environmental groups in the major countries that Drax sources wood pellets from have called on
@edmilliband01
&
@energygovuk
to scrap plans for new subsidies & Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (
#BECCS
) project.
#geoengineering
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What do Canadian start-up
@planetary_tech
, privately-owned
@SouthWestWater
and the UK
@EnvAgency
have in common? A secret marine
#geoengineering
experiment involving dumping magnesium hydroxide into the sea off the coast of Cornwall - read more here:
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"Strong negotiations by African & other countries on
#geoengineering
at
#UNEA6
is a major victory, and showed that they can advance a solar geoengineering non-use agreement and form a coalition of the willing that no one can stop." Niclas Hällström @ HOME! Alliance press briefing
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Some interesting numbers on funding for
#geoengineering
, which hit all-time highs in 2017 and 2018.
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Some researchers at the usually-sensible
@PIK_Climate
(
@ALevermann
,
@matmeng
) have put forward a shockingly irresponsible proposal to industrialize Antarctica to save northern cities from the fossil fuel industry.
cc
@PIK_Klima
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Offsets allow one unit of something - even wildlife - to be exchanged for another. It creates an idea of fungibility between things that in fact, aren't equal.
- Peter Riggs, Pivot Point at
@GFC_forests
webinar on
#CarbonRemovals
:
#DangerousDistractions
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"Experimental
#GeoEngineering
schemes to protect areas such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef are "distracting technofixes" that violate an international moratorium on the largely untested tech projects..." —
@AFP
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From Bonn to Baku: Carbon market negotiations are putting
#geoengineering
onto the
#UNFCCC
agenda | Read about the implications of the upcoming
#climate
negotiations for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) projects in our latest newsletter:
#SB60
#COP29
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Beyond geoengineering, a dangerous idea promoted in
#IceOnFire
is its positioning of markets and private investment as a key to climate transition.
Science is clear: the only viable path forward is a drastic reduction in fossil fuel consumption.
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When will geoengineers learn that we don’t understand complex systems enough to play with them? And that we shouldn’t ever play with them? When will they realise that they are distracting the world from real climate solutions?
☀️ Could "dimming the sun" help turn down global heating?
🌡 It might sound like science fiction, but some are exploring solar geoengineering tech to stop temperatures rising.
⭕️ They say it's relatively cheap and simple - while others warn it could be catastrophic. Why? 🧵
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My Continent is not your Giant Climate laboratory -
@chuks_okereke
fantastically writes for the
@nytimes
#SayNo2SolarGeo
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#IceOnFire
highlights many real solutions, but mixes dangerous and counterproductive proposals originating from oil industry. [thread]
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74 organizations from across the world & mostly based in the Global South are calling for a halt to solar geoeningineering & the deployment of similar technologies that purport to help solve the climate crisis but only enrich polluting corporations & exercebate the crisis.
HOME Campaign Statement on the SCoPEx Advisory Committee and its legitimation of Solar Geoengineering:
We reject solar geoengineering experiments and the invitation to meaningless participation.
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📢Victory for civil society & Indigenous Peoples' Organisations! Press statement on cancellation of Harvard University SCoPEx project: The Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME!) Alliance celebrates the defeat of a high-profile solar
#geoengineering
experiment 📢
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"Not only is the technology imaginary, but so are the control methods, and the tools to monitor and understand the impacts of interventions."
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#CarbonCapture
and storage - why is it a dangerous distraction? Why are the biggest promoters of CCS also the biggest polluters?
Listen to
@pascoesabido
from
@corporateeurope
Almuth Ernsting from
@biofuelwatch
and
@NikkiReisch
from
@ciel_tweets
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@CalSGC
has "health and equity" at the core of its mandate.
Solar geoengineering is among the least equitable responses to climate change. It could cause droughts and floods, particularly in Africa and South America.
Legitimizing this pathway contradicts its mission.
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Young climate activists like Greta Thunberg have voiced their concerns about
#SolarGeoengineering
.
Watch the video to learn more from
@GretaThunberg
and scientists, Indigenous people and climate activists:
@GideonFuterman
#DiscussCEC
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A map that tracks the rapidly-expanding list of geoengineering projects around the world.
#IPCC
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Indigenous groups, Iowa landowners and environmentalists are coming together to oppose a massive new CO2 pipeline.
#FalseSolutions
@oak_institute
Read more:
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As PR firms working for
#geoengineering
outfits work their magic, many technologies are being hyped. When uncritical media coverage asked "will [some new technology] save the climate, our factsheets provide the antidote:
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Solar geoengineering “goes against the respect” with which the Saami are taught to treat nature and Mother Earth -
@AsaLBlind
Read more from panellists at today's solar geoengineering event:
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‘SAI is a technology with the potential for extreme consequences, and stands out as dangerous, unpredictable, and unmanageable. There is no justification for testing and experimenting with technology that seems to be too dangerous to ever be used”
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The
#GENevaEnvDialogues
held a launch of a new report about
#ClimateEngineering
, feat.
@UNEP_Europe
@annamariahubert
@foenCH
@HoneggerM
&
@Oliver_Geden
.
Intro to
@lilifuhr
(👁️image) gives a sense of report's limitations.
#handsoffmotherearth
Notes:
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Claiming that "unfounded fears are holding [
#geoengineering
] back" & then citing a controversial paper that likely overestimates the impact of the fall in shipping-related sulfur emissions to suit your agenda & with no caveat: slow clap emoji
@WillRinehart
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*Our latest piece*
“…about 70 geoengineering projects, 5 % of the total documented projects, were executed on the African continent.”
@lilifuhr
@ETC_Group
.
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Great news! "On Friday, the ISO stressed that SRM and similar untested geoengineering schemes were "out of the scope" of the guidance."
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Use of geoengineering techniques like Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). would result in plantations of non-native trees like eucalyptus. Portugal is a cautionary tale in this respect.
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Does CCS work? Well, so far CCS has missed every single target set for capturing carbon. So, the short answer is - no.
A great and hilarious run down of CCS from
@thejuicemedia
Watch the video:
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Big news!
@LouiseBedsworth
of
@CalSGC
has resigned as chair of the
#SCoPEx
Advisory Committee.
It's unclear if Bedsworth is still on the committee, but this is a victory for multi-lateral governance of Solar
#GeoEngineering
#handsoffmotherearth
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2/ There is no proof that ocean fertilization will permanently remove carbon, but there is evidence that it could cause "dead zones" in the ocean by removing oxygen from the water, potentially affecting all parts of the food chain.
#IceOnFire
More:
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What is solar geoengineering? Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford explains the problems:
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📢Earth Day webinar: Don’t Geoengineer Africa!
#African
civil society mobilising against new threats to Mother Earth📢 Join the HOME! Alliance on 22 April to discuss the threat that
#GeoEngineering
technologies pose to Africans & people around the world
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🎙️Participate in the
@HOMEAlliance_
press conference on the dangerous climate fix that is
#geoengineering
at
#SB60
later today, join in-person or online. Full details: 🎙️
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"...money spent developing [
#CCS
] technology distracts from funding proven solutions, like renewable energy, while encouraging oil and gas companies and other heavy carbon emitters to continue their operations unabated"
@ciel_tweets
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"...obtaining the necessary amounts of alkaline substances [for marine
#geoengineering
] would mean...an additional 10bn tons of processed rock, surpassing the total production of the global coal-mining industry over the past 250yrs." Read more:
@ProSyn
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🌏They can’t see the wood for the MechanicalTrees™: Read our latest
#geoengineering
tech update on Direct Air Capture (
#DAC
) projects - including a feature on Carbon Collect's plans for dystopian mechanical tree farms!🌎
#ClimateScam
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🌏Dumping biomass in the open ocean: It's an unproven carbon removal strategy, but that hasn’t stopped companies from selling carbon credits from it! New Marine
#GeoEngineering
tech update out now: 🌎
#OceanDecade24
#OceanDecade
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“Limiting warming to 1.5 with no or low
#Overshoot
is economically feasible and the barriers are political not technological. But we need rapid
#phaseout
of
#FossilFuels
to achieve this and we don't need speculative technologies.”
@nikkireisch
@ciel_tweets
#BonnClimateConference
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“The vocal opposition to
#geoengineering
at
#UNEA6
sends a powerful message underscoring a broad commitment to upholding established norms of intl. env. law. SRM techs are dangerous and do not have any role to play in our common future.”
@mmachch
at HOME! Alliance press briefing
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"Your current role legitimizes a project that furthers the interests of climate disrupting forces, such as the fossil fuels industry. We urge you to break your complicity with this path, and to withdraw your participation from the SCoPEx Advisory Committee."
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“I’m happy for Africa’s leadership on
#geoengineering
at
#UNEA6
, which builds on the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment's decision on the non-use of solar geoengineering technologies.” Mfoniso Antia at the HOME! Alliance UNEA6 press briefing
@rarespp
@EcoHomef
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Really looking forward to the Don't Geoengineer
#Africa
webinar on Mon 22/04! Join in to hear about civil society mobilisations around
#geoengineering
. Fantastic speaker line-up:
@josuARUNA
@rarespp
@EricDNjuguna
@GFC_forests
@mmachch
@FoEAfrica
#EarthDay
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Swedish environmental groups call on
@bolund
@IbrahimBaylan_
and
@ernkrans
to oppose
@SSCspace
involvement in the SCoPEx test flight
@ssnc_global
@greenpeaceSE
@jordensvanner
@biofuelwatch
@ciel_tweets
@CJAOurPower
@FoEint
@boell_stiftung
@IENearth
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What is the problem with the Reflecting Sunlight Report’s call to increase
#SolarGeoengineering
research?
Oxford Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert
@Climatebook
explains in this video
@chrfield
#DiscussCEC
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"Brown’s statements didn’t mention geoengineering technology, but his “net zero” declaration clearly implies it. Many observers have rushed to connect the dots from the declaration to geoengineering technology."
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Important opinion piece in
@ipsnews
by
@mmachch
(
@ciel_tweets
&
@HOMEAlliance_
) about the dangerous path that the UN
#climate
talks are heading down when it comes to
#carbonmarkets
& legitimising false solutions like marine
#GeoEngineering
.
#SB60
#COP29
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On Dec 15th, (SCoPEx), a solar geo-engineering project of Harvard University, announced its plan to conduct part of a geo-engineering experiment in Kiruna, Sweden, with the Swedish Space Corporation. Please read the HOME campaign’s response here:
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4/ Many of the activities proposed by
#IceOnFire
– organic farming, renewable energy – are positive, but the fact that those helpful initiatives are used in the same breath as geoengineering technologies promoted by the oil industry is disturbing and misleading.
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The Japanese government & big polluters are planning to dump captured CO2 on countries in the Global South, including Malaysia & Indonesia.
@FoEJapan
's Ayumi Fukakusa explains why this carbon colonialism must be stopped.
#CCS
#GeoEngineering
#Colonialism
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Starting in 15 minutes ⏰ Press Conference: HOME Alliance says no to ‘removals’ and geoengineering in
#UNFCCC
#Article6o4
#COP27
Watch the webcast:
Learn more:
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“The Africa Group at
#UNEA6
led powerful opposition to Switzerland’s
#SolarGeoengineering
resolution, forming the basis for future efforts towards a non-use agreement on solar geoengineering internationally.”
@barnta
@afri_tap
at HOME! Alliance UNEA6 press briefing, 29 Feb 2024
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Visit and to learn more!
@IENearth
@SaamiCouncil
@ciel_tweets
@ETC_Group
@GeoEngMon
@boell_stiftung
@ResearchersDesk
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HOME Campaign Statement on the SCoPEx Advisory Committee and its legitimation of Solar Geoengineering:
We reject solar geoengineering experiments and the invitation to meaningless participation.
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1/ Direct air capture, featured in
#IceOnFire
, is an energy-intensive form of geoengineering, only viable with subsidies or as part of oil extraction. It has been promoted by the same oil producers who have delayed climate action.
More here:
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🌎Our latest
#geoengineering
technology update looks at how carbon markets are driving open-ocean Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) experiments that are endangering marine ecosystems. Read it here: 🌏
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A great piece by
@reddmonitor
on the farce that was Running Tide's "research" project, that actually involved dumping thousands of tonnes of woodchips into the sea and selling carbon credits from it, in the name of
#climate
mitigation.
#geoengineering
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Today billionaire Bill Gates releases his book about climate solutions. Climate change is one of the crises used by
@billgates
and
@gatesfoundation
to justify urgent, technocratic “solutions” for altering food systems around the world.
#geoengineering
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Silvia Ribeiro looks at the most recent IPCC report real pathways out of climate chaos:
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What do discharging alkaline substances into wastewater outflows, dumping seaweed into the deep sea & covering Arctic ice in tiny glass balls have in common? They are all risky marine
#geoengineering
projects being tested in the open ocean. Find out more:
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A timely update on Direct Air Capture development projects and funders, as carbon capture hype heats up.
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The HOME Alliance is looking for a coordinator to bring together social movements, grassroots organizations, scientists and experts to build the alliance and oppose geoengineering.
🌍🌏🌎💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼💪🏻
Apply now:
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New briefing on the problems with a
#GeoEngineering
resolution at
#UNEA6
calls on states to "acknowledge the risks posed by these most dystopian technologies by stepping up & committing to the Non-Use of Solar Geoengineering". Read in English or Spanish:
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