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Flying blind. That's how leading climate scientists and academics describe the current state of geoengineering schemes.

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At the Bonn climate talks, countries failed to reach a decision on need for equity when discussing the best available science for climate action.

geoengineeringmonitor.orgCarbon Dioxide Removal and the Controversy over Science and Equity at the Bonn Climate Talks - Geoengineering MonitorGuest article by Radhika Chatterjee, Senior Researcher, Third World Network

Radhika Chatterjee of @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social breaks down the fight over science and equity at mid-year climate negotiations in Bonn in @geoengmon.bsky.social Read the full article: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/carbon-dioxi...

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At the Bonn climate talks, countries failed to reach a decision on need for equity when discussing the best available science for climate action.

Developing countries did not cause the climate crisis, yet they would carry a much bigger share of the mitigation burden.

A 2024 study found that IPCC scenarios assume low energy use for decades in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, while developed countries would keep emitting beyond their fair share.

At the Bonn climate talks, countries failed to reach a decision on need for equity when discussing the best available science for climate action.

Climate models that guide climate policy around the world often leave equity out, and the futures they project leave the Global South far behind the Global North.

Who defines acceptable risk in a warming world, and who carries the burden when interventions fail or produce uneven outcomes?

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Who defines acceptable risk in a warming world, and who carries the burden when interventions fail or produce uneven outcomes?

Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, Alex Ekwueme Federal University in Nigeria shares that geoengineering research risks diverting attention and investment away from real climate solutions like renewable energy development.

Dr. Mfoniso-Antia Chris of Health of mother earth foundation/HOMEF adds that geoengineering, particularly Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), represents an attempt to manipulate the Earth’s systems at a planetary scale without addressing the root cause of the crisis — fossil fuel emissions.

Who defines acceptable risk in a warming world, and who carries the burden when interventions fail or produce uneven outcomes?

HOME Alliance Media Fellow Ruth Tene writes for The Cabal on how Africa finds itself confronting a contentious climate intervention: geoengineering. Africa risks becoming the testing ground for another false solution dressed up as climate action.

Africa's own climate plans point in a different direction. The 51 national climate plans (Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs) that African countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement focus mostly on protecting ecosystems and cutting emissions, not large-scale planetary intervention.

✊🏽Latin America and Global South rejects geoengineering. In the lead-up to #COP31, listen to Gina Cortes Valderrama of The Women and Gender Constituency saying: “Geoengineering is not a fix to climate change. Latin America and the Global South are not laboratories."

"We are here to show what peoples power looks like, holding the line and fighting against these unprecedented risks.” Our earth is not a laboratory 🌍 #Realclimatesolutions #NoGeoengineering #ClimateJustice #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoFalseSolutions

Flying blind. That's how leading climate scientists and academics describe the current state of geoengineering schemes.

theguardian.com‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | Raymond Pierrehumbert, Julia Slingo, Michael Mann and Valerie Masson-DelmotteDo we really want to play dice with our planet?

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Flying blind. That's how leading climate scientists and academics describe the current state of geoengineering schemes.

In an opinion piece in @theguardian.com , Raymond Pierrehumbert, Julia Slingo, Michael E Mann and Valerie Masson-Delmotte break down how the geoengineering juggernaut keeps rolling with complete disregard for how it could damage the Mother Earth.

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➡️ Technologies that can wreak havoc on the climate system with potential termination shock. ➡️ Only a temporary fix with barely any oversight of private players. ➡️ Funding targeted at developing the technologies for deployment regardless of the consequences.

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"Self-determination should not mean self destruction..." IEN's Geoengineering Outreach Organizer, Aakaluk A. Blatchford, stood outside the Harpa convention center during Arctic Circle Assembly to call out the dangerous schemes being proposed in order to continue fossil fuel extraction.

As we head to #COP31, watch Aakaluk Adrienne Blatchford of @ienearth.bsky.social share why Indigenous Peoples are resisting false solutions like Geoengineering. #Realclimatesolutions #NoGeoengineering #ClimateJustice #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoFalseSolutions

“Geoengineering is not the answer. We do not need blue or green economies. We demanda climate justice. We demand clean water and air. Stop geoengineering and AI data centers.” The time is now!

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As Europe grapples with heatwaves pushing health systems towards breaking point, the search for climate “solutions” is intensifying. But should we really be considering solar geoengineering as a public health intervention?

The question is not simply whether we can cool the planet. It is whether we should gamble with global public health when the risks remain so poorly understood.

medscape.comSolar Geoengineering: Climate Cure or Health Gamble?As record heatwaves strain European healthcare systems, experts warn that solar geoengineering could carry profound health risks and governance challenges.

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Solar geoengineering risks also include unpredictable rainfall patterns, droughts, floods and impact on food security, with a potential to cause great harm, impacting public health.

Most importantly, solar geoengineering does not address the root causes of the climate crisis including cutting fossil fuel emissions, the real driver of the health crises we are already living through.

Much of the research behind it is funded by private money, venture capital and philanthrocapitalists. Meanwhile, research into the potential health risks of solar geoengineering is chronically underfunded.

Experts says that any technology that has the potential to alter the Earth’s system can’t be considered just climate issue but also a public health issue.

HOME Alliance Media Fellow Manuela Callari writes for Medscape unpacking the health risks of solar geoengineering

More than 130 civil society organisations, networks and other stakeholders are calling on the Supervisory Body of the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism to immediately suspend the first carbon credits issued under the UN’s new Article 6.4 carbon market

globalforestcoalition.orgCivil society groups call for suspension of first-ever Article 6.4 carbon credits - Global Forest CoalitionMore than 130 civil society organisations are calling on the UN’s Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism Supervisory Body to immediately suspend the first carbon credits issued under its new “high-integr...

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➡️ Assess the project against real-world conditions, not simply methodological compliance on paper. ➡️ Take corrective action—including revocation of credits—if the evidence shows that requirements were not met or that the credits do not represent genuine and verifiable emissions reductions.

globalforestcoalition.orgOpen Letter to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body - Global Forest CoalitionMore than 130 civil society organisations are calling on the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body to immediately suspend credits from the first carbon project approved under the mechanism, an improved cooksto...

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There are also serious concerns about the project’s emissions calculations, monitoring and verification, safeguards and stakeholder participation. The first activity to receive credits under Article 6.4 is therefore a crucial test of the mechanism’s claim to “high integrity”.

Our message to the Supervisory Body is straightforward: ➡️ Suspend further issuance, transfer and use of credits associated with PoA 10471. ➡️ Commission an independent and comprehensive assessment.

and commission an independent, comprehensive assessment of the project behind them. The credits were issued to PoA 10471, a biomass cookstove programme operating in Myanmar.