Geoengineering

The term "geoengineering" encompasses various technologies aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change by intervening in Earth's systems. These technologies involve reflecting sunlight back into space or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They offer a potential solution for climate change but come with far-reaching social, political, and environmental risks.

Here you will find current articles, publications, and thematic focuses on geoengineering.

Recent Articles on Geoengineering

Solar geoengineering at COP 28

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

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

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

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

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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Thematic Focuses on Geoengineering

Radical Realism for Climate Justice

Geoengineering

Dossier on the UN Biodiversity Conference in Cancún (CBD COP 13)

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Publications on Geoengineering

Geoengineering Briefing: Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx)

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?

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

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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