Seafields’ faulty promises in the Caribbean (summary)
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
Our oceans are not a testing ground for profit-driven experiments or carbon-market gambling!
(Texto em português abaixo)
FULL REPORT COMING SOON:
Related Content
Organizations denounce Carbon Markets ahead of COP30
Submitted by Veronica Villa on
55 movements and organizations from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries published a powerful MANIFESTO rejecting carbon markets and defending territories against an avalanche of projects that are causing damage throughout the region
On October 29, 55 movements and organizations from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries published a powerful MANIFESTO rejecting carbon markets and defending territories against an avalanche of projects that are causing damage throughout the region. This manifesto challenges COP30 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will begin in the first week of November with high-level meetings.
Global South-washing
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
How The Degrees Initiative is imposing its solar geoengineering agenda onto climate research in the Global South
To read the whole briefing online or to download a pdf version please go to geoengineeringmonitor.org
The DEveloping country Governance REsearch and Evaluation for SRM (Degrees) Initiative’s stated aim is to facilitate the participation of countries in the Global South in research relating to the deployment and governance of solar geoengineering, referred to as Solar Radiation Management (SRM).
A solar geoengineering Trojan horse at UNEA-6
Submitted by Laura Dunn on
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.
Growing carbon is not like growing watermelons: the seductive trap of carbon farming and digital tech
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
Episode 4 of 'Who will control the food system?'
Audio:
wwc3_camila_moreno.mp3
Media Folder:
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.
---
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.
COP 28: sugar-coated poison pill
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
The conclusions of COP 28 will do nothing for the health of our planet, as snake oil salesmen rule the roost in the UNFCCC at the moment.
The document containing the recent conclusions from the UN climate change conference in the United Arab Emirates (COP 28) is an egregious example of an official statement crafted to appear to be addressing a crucial problem, whilst skilfully disguising the fact that many decisions taken will actually worsen that problem. A perverse narrative has been forced through, hiding a complete lack of real action.
Stop carbon offsetting now!
Submitted by Laura Dunn on
The fraud and harms to local communities caused by carbon market projects have been thoroughly documented.
Press release, 4 December 2023 – Carbon offsetting has undermined real climate action, given rise to human rights and Indigenous rights violations and caused severe harm to frontline communities for over two decades. Despite this, the UN climate conference (COP28) currently underway in the United Arab Emirates is set to be one of the biggest promotional events for carbon offsets ever.
Article 6 on the Ground
Submitted by Laura Dunn on
Real solutions instead of dangerous distractions
Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:00-16:30
Side event room 5, B6 83
WATCH THE RECORDED LIVESTREAM
Industrial seaweed will not cool the climate or save nature, new report says
Submitted by Laura Dunn on
Research shows that mass seaweed plantations pose a major threat to marine ecosystems and are unlikely to capture or permanently store significant quantities of carbon.
September 20, 2023 - A report published today by the international research organization ETC Group casts serious doubts on seaweed as an emerging “blue carbon” industry. Their research shows that mass seaweed plantations pose a major threat to marine ecosystems and are unlikely to capture or permanently store significant quantities of carbon.[1]
The Seaweed Delusion
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
Industrial seaweed will not cool the climate or save nature
As the world scrambles for a climate fix, seaweeds – or “macroalgae” – have been thrust into the limelight. Buoyed up by hype and hundreds of millions of dollars of so called “green” investment, a new “blue carbon” seaweed industry is invading coasts and seas, ostensibly under the umbrella of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Related Fora:
The Africa Climate Summit
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
Carbon Credits and Dangerous New Technologies in Africa
Audio:
Hardi Yakubu
Media Folder:
Dean Bhebhe
Media Folder:
(Scroll down to listen to audio clips from Hardi Yakubu, movement coordinator, Africans Rising, and from Bhekumuzi Dean Bhebhe, co-facilitator of Don't Gas Africa Movement.)
No to geoengineers’ technofix gold rush, yes to Real Zero!
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
Join civil society event at Bonn climate change "intersessionals"
Previously buried within the UNFCCC’s negotiating corridors and committees, a new technofix gold rush has been stealthily emerging in global climate change negotiations – with potentially disastrous implications for the world’s fight against climate change.
Stop the U.S. start-up testing solar geoengineering in Mexico
Submitted by Laura Dunn on
Profit driven experiments reveal how quickly solar geoengineering research can lead to deployment
Photo credit: Marcus Woodbridge
Mexico City, Mexico – A longtime watchdog on geoengineering activities, ETC Group is sounding the alarm on two recent solar geoengineering tests that have released sulfur dioxide over Baja California Sur, Mexico as part of an experiment to block the sun’s warmth from reaching the earth. A two-man start-up from the United States, calling itself Make Sunsets, is behind these tests and appears to be seeking to profit from the climate crisis.
False Solutions Alert: Geoengineering in Climate Negotiations
Submitted by Laura Dunn on
Geoengineering comprises a set of technologies that include interventions on land, in the oceans, or in the atmosphere.
Geoengineering – the large-scale and intentional technological manipulation of the planet’s climate – is creeping onto the agenda and into the processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) despite multiple concerns about potential environmental and social impacts.
Related Fora:
WEBINAR - Geoengineering in Climate Negotiations
Submitted by Laura Dunn on
Get the latest with Neth Daño, Silvia Ribeiro and Niki Martinez
Under the radar of many people and governments, several risky geoengineering techniques are being considered at UN climate negotiations. Most are speculative technologies that could cause even more climate chaos and function as a costly distraction from real solutions.
This webinar, cohosted by ETC Group and RLS will provide an overview of the likely and unlikely places where geoengineering might pop up at UN climate negotiations.
Amidst rising hunger, new report shows corporate concentration in agrifood industry threatens an already vulnerable food system.
Submitted by Laura Dunn on
Food Barons 2022, names and ranks the largest food corporations dominating each link of the 8-10 trillion dollar commercial industrial food chain.
New report online at: https://etcgroup.org/content/food-barons-2022
Solar Geoengineering
Submitted by Veronica Villa on
Warnings from scientists, indigeous peoples, youth and climate activists
Once relegated to the fringe of the climate debate, plans to use solar geoengineering to mask rising temperatures are receiving increasing attention from some scientists, governments, and the media. Catchy headlines about silver bullet fixes often downplay the real and profound risks that such technologies pose — including potentially devastating harm to ecosystems, increased droughts and extreme weather events, and the disruption of food production for millions of people around the world.
The Sugar Daddy of Geoengineering
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
Bill Gates’ fossil fuel interests and funding for global climate engineering
ETC Group contributes to a new Global Citizen’s Report ‘Gates to a Global Empire’ which explores the many ways in which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wield immense influence across the globe, driving a form of “techno-solutionism” that prioritizes corporate power and profit and ignores over strengthening communities and sustainable solutions. Here we examine Bill Gates’ well-known promotion and funding of untested and potentially devastating geoengineering technologies, which provide cover for his less-known financial investments in fossil fuel technologies.
Proposed standard threatens to undermine climate agreements, entrench geoengineering
Submitted by Dru Oja Jay on
Who is behind backroom push to undermine climate standards?
DAVAO, MONTREAL AND MEXICO CITY—A report from Agence France-Presse has revealed a new effort to establish the basis for a market for “climate credits” for the use of geoengineering technologies. Civil society groups are denouncing the closed-door negotiations at the International Standards Organization (ISO) that could undermine efforts to curb climate change.
The Big Bad Fix
Submitted by Veronica Villa on
Now in French!
The Big Bad Fix, book on geoengineering by ETC Group, BiofuelWatch and the Heinrich Boell Foundation, now available in French.
Pages
