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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · 14h

More than 200 civil society groups—including Global Forest Coalition—are asking Brazil’s COP30 team to commit to “polluter-free” climate negotiations in Belém www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/01/c... #KickBigPollutersOut #COP30

NGOs urge Brazil to prevent fossil fuel capture of COP30 climate summit NGOs urge Brazil to keep fossil fuel firms out of COP30

More than 200 civil society groups are asking Brazil's COP30 team to commit to "polluter-free" climate negotiations in Belém

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James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · Sep 9

#Geoengineering is not the way to address #climatechange in the polar regions!

Our review of the 5 most prominent polar geoengineering ideas concludes that none are viable. Instead, they are environmentally dangerous and have major governance & ethics issues

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Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects

Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · 3d

Such a nice resource

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 16d

Want to explain #polarClimate and why #Geoengineering doesn't belong there to kids? Try this excellent Frontiers for Young Minds piece by @helenmillman.bsky.social et al:

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Polar Geoengineering: A Risky Experiment That Will Not Fix Climate Change

Earth’s climate is warming because we burn fossil fuels for electricity, transport, heating, and food production, and this releases greenhouse gases. The polar regions (the Arctic and Antarctic) are w...

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Secular_Girl @wifejackson.bsky.social · 12d

#GeoEngineering. What could go wrong 🤔? #idiots

Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions

Some are clearly designed to allow the destructive fossil fuel industry to keep operating. #climatecrisis #FossilFuels #canada #moronicmark #atmosphere

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Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions

Some geoengineering schemes are clearly designed to allow the destructive fossil fuel industry to keep operating.

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 8d

#Geoengineering is being sold as a climate “plan B.”
🚫 It’s a #biodiversity death sentence.

Our new blog breaks down why these unproven, massive-scale tech interventions—from spraying aerosols to dumping biomass in the deep sea—will accelerate ecological collapse, not prevent it.

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · 3d

To date, the total estimated amount of the military and conflict-related climate reparations owed by Israel and its allies to the Palestinian people since the Nakba is US$148 billion. www.palclimateinstitute.org/media/milita... #palestine #gaza #climate

Military & Conflict-Related Emissions & Climate Reparations for Palestine

This work provides an estimate of carbon-emission-based costs of the traceable military-related activities by Israel and its allies. This quantification represents a fraction of the total climate repa...

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · 10d

This panel spotlights resistance to marine geoengineering from coastal and Indigenous communities on the front lines. Hear @ienearth.bsky.social @ciel.org @foeus.bsky.social @handsoffmotherearth.org and more ✊🏽 youtu.be/0UauVmqGdbE?...

New York Climate Week 2025: Front-Line Communities Resist Marine Geoengineering

YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Action

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 10d

#LongRead
An investigation by POLITICO lifts the veil on how a “pilot” marine cloud brightening experiment in California abruptly shut down when local officials discovered it had been carried out without public notice.
@foeus.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @ciel.org @cjaourpower.bsky.social

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Sep 9

A new analysis says #geoengineering schemes proposed for polar regions are so flawed that no amount of research could resolve them and that they treat only the symptoms and not the causes of the climate emergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Underwater curtains and reflective beads are ‘unrealistic and dangerous polar geoengineering ideas’

Climate research group says such ideas are diverting attention from cutting fossil fuel use

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great article! Points out that scientists say solar geoengineering technologies could affect weather patterns, agriculture and the provision of basic needs like food and water. The impacts are poorly understood and can never be fully known. 😨

Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · Sep 2

Millions in government funding are flowing to a controversial technique that proponents say will cool the planet by making clouds above the ocean more reflective. Can it be done? And should it be done?

🔗: https://loom.ly/nE84cEQ

Explainer: Could making ocean clouds shinier cool the planet?

Scientists are divided over the merits of ‘marine cloud brightening’ experiments aimed at making clouds more reflective and geoengineering the ocean

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · Sep 2

🚨 #NewResourceAlert!
We’re launching a Civil Society Toolkit on Geoengineering — a must-have guide to understanding and resisting risky geoengineering scams 🌍
🧵 Thread below ⬇️

@foeint.bsky.social @ciel.org @etcgroup.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social

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Solar Geoengineering Non-use Agreement @solargeoeng.bsky.social · Jul 8

Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Assoc. Prof. of Sustainability Law at the University of Amsterdam, Adjunct Prof. of Law at the University of Fiji & Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, on why she signed the Open Letter calling for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering 💬

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country on Earth Is Under Assault —Ecuador www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

Opinion | The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country on Earth Is Under Assault

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · Aug 1

Important @politico.com article reveals plans & players behind last year's secretive Alameda #geoengineering experiment. Billionaire funders, steps to much larger tests but NO public discussion.

This is NOT the way! Secretive techno-fixes play right into the hands of petrofascism. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Jul 23

Sketchy stuff indeed!

Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Jul 23

Grassroots victory over California wood pellet export scheme shows folly of burning biomass to capture carbon

Guest article by @vozsilvestre.bsky.social

The failure of a proposal to bring the export-oriented wood pellet sector to CA exposes the global unviability of BECCS schemes
#geoengineering

Grassroots victory over California wood pellet export scheme shows folly of burning biomass to capture carbon - Geoengineering Monitor

Guest article By California resident Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Jul 16

What is #geoengineering?

It’s in the news lately, but what does it really mean?

🔎 Geoengineering = large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere to temporarily reduce the effects of climate change. It’s a false climate solution

www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/what-is-geoe...

What is Geoengineering? - Geoengineering Monitor

Geoengineering refers to large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere with the aim of reducing the effects of climate change, usually

www.geoengineeringmonitor.org

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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · Jul 16

❌ These technologies and narratives risk diverting attention and resources away from real climate action!

🔗 Watch the full recording and view the slides here:
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/we...

Pulling Back the Curtain: Taking on False Solutions — Real Zero Europe

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Jul 14

ICYMI, part 1 on the risky distraction that is #geoengineering

Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Jul 14

On ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, CIEL’s Mary Church @mmchch.bsky.social & @matrixlaw.bsky.social's Kate Cook expose geoengineering as a risky distraction from real #ClimateAction.
It won’t solve the crisis and could make it even worse. 🌍🔥

🎧Listen: bit.ly/3IsCQ4j

A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law Part 1 - Matrix Chambers

A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law Part 1

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Jul 14

A must-listen on #geoengineering 🤓

Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Jul 14

In part 2 of ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, CIEL’s Mary Church @mmchch.bsky.social & @MatrixChambers’ @matrixlaw.bsky.social Kate Cook unpack existing international restrictions on geoengineering, like the CBD moratorium & London Protocol 🌍⚖️

🎧 Listen to the podcast: bit.ly/4lV8PZj

A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law Part 2 - Matrix Chambers

A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law Part 2

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jun 16

NEW from Breaking Green: When Arctic Climate “Solutions” Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Jul 11

🗓️ Webinar July 16 at 2pm EST by Alaska Community Action on Toxics: Carbon Capture and Storage, a Dangerous Distraction
www.akaction.org/webinars/202...

🗣️ Speakers from @ienearth.bsky.social & @biologicaldiversity.org will explain how CCS continues a legacy of extractive harm

#fossilfuels #climate

Carbon Capture and Storage: A Dangerous Distraction | ACAT

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process designed to collect carbon dioxide generated by high-emission activities, such as coal or gas power production or plastics manufacturing…

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ACAT @acat-akaction.bsky.social · Jul 10

UPCOMING #Webinar!🖥️

ACAT & @che-healthenv.bsky.social will present "Carbon Capture and Storage: A Dangerous Distraction."

Speakers will explain how CCS is a false climate solution that prolongs our reliance on fossil fuels and enables industry to continue polluting.

akaction.org/webinars/202...

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