CBD reinforces geoengineering moratorium
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More information and detail: background briefing about geoengineering at COP 16
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UN climate talks could undermine precaution on geoengineering called for by the biodiversity convention
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by Linda Schneider (Heinrich Boëll Foundation) and Silvia Ribeiro (ETC)
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.
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A Big Win As UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP16 Reaffirms Geoengineering is a Risk
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Hands Off Mother Earth! Alliance press release
COP16: An opportunity to reinforce precaution on geoengineering
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by Kavya Chowdhry, ETC Group & Coraina de la Plaza, Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance
(See below: "Reinforcing precaution against geoengineering to protect biodiversity and communities", a briefing for COP 16 delegates, from members of the HOME Alliance)
This article was published 28 October, in ECO 70(6), the magazine of the CBD Alliance. It concludes with recommendations for governments negotiating at the CBD’s COP 16, in Cali, Colombia.
Corporate Capture of the UN Summit of the Future
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A recipe for a dystopian digitalized tomorrow
(New York, 20 September 2024) The looming environmental dangers of massive deployment of digitalization and unleashing AI are being effectively ignored by the UN Summit of the Future taking place in New York on 22-23 September 2024 [1]. Giant technology companies are using the summit to position themselves as the tech saviours who will solve the world crises, with final versions of the text concealing the stark impact of their activities on the planet’s environment.
Why sinking seaweed is not an answer to climate change
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UN Ocean and Climate Dialogue should reject 'Blue Carbon' wave
Even though the earth is burning, investors are being allowed to promote profit-generating climate projects in the UN – even projects that are unlikely to generate, and could even prevent, the reductions in carbon emissions that the world so urgently needs.
Another defeat for solar geoengineering
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Harvard´s SCoPEx experiment to block the sun cancelled
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March 18, 2024 – Opposed by ETC Group since its inception in 2015, the SCoPEx project, which was Harvard’s flagship solar geoengineering experiment has closed down.
A solar geoengineering Trojan horse at UNEA-6
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A controversial proposal was shut down by Global South countries and broad civil society resistance
Nairobi, Kenya – On the surface, the Swiss resolution on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) at UNEA-6 could appear to be a neutral call to constitute an expert group on SRM. But whether it was intentional or not, the proposed expert group could act as a Trojan horse for the advancement of solar geoengineering, creating a base for geoengineering advocates to set themselves as the main reference in global discussions on SRM.
Pollution is not a climate solution: Africa wins the fight against solar geoengineering at UNEA-6
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Withdrawn resolution on solar geoengineering at UNEA6 is a "victory for common sense", says HOME Alliance
Nairobi, Kenya – In the early hours of this morning at the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) a resolution on solar geoengineering was withdrawn. Numerous African countries, along with many others from the Global South, advocated for the Assembly to reaffirm a precautionary approach to geoengineering, as it has been established by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and other UN bodies.
Growing carbon is not like growing watermelons: the seductive trap of carbon farming and digital tech
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Episode 4 of 'Who will control the food system?'
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Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back.
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In this fourth episode, Zahra Moloo talks to Camila Moreno, an independent researcher who works with social movements in Brazil and across Latin America on the social and environmental dimensions of biotechnology and agribusiness expansion.
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