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‼️ Join us this Friday at #ClimateWeekNYC for our virtual session: “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-Use Agreement”

📆 September 26, 2025
🕘 9:00–10:30 AM EDT
📍 Online

🔗 Register here: foe-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-Use Agreement
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Paginagrote advertentie KNAW tegen de bezuinigingen met handtekeningen van 511 leden (KNAW en de Jonge Akademie) www.knaw.nl/nl/themas/st...
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📢 "𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲"

Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke & Nnimmo Bassey warn that experimenting with speculative solar geoengineering technologies on the African continent constitutes a grave act of climate injustice.

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Some quotes 🧵👇
Africa Is Not a Solar Geoengineering Test Site
Chukwumerije Okereke & Nnimmo Bassey warn that experimenting with speculative technologies on the continent is a grave act of climate injustice.
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✉️ ESG Newsletter May
Filled with publication opportunities for #TCESG2025 along with the latest news, upcoming events, exciting opportunities and recent publications shared across the ESG network.

🔗 Read it here: mailchi.mp/earthsystemg...
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🚨 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: “𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔'𝘀 '𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴' 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆”

Professors R. Pierrehumbert, M. Hulme, P. Newell & A. Stirling critique the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency’s unprecedented £60 million solar geoengineering research initiative.

A thread on their key concerns 👇
ARIA’s ‘Exploring Climate Cooling’ Folly - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
On 7 May 2025, the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) announced the list of projects to be funded under its £60 million solar geoengineering research initiative. Readers of this blog wil...
www.solargeoeng.org
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by Frank Biermann

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It was a pleasure delivering my inaugural lecture as the 2025 Zennström Visiting Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University last Monday, jointly with fellow Zennström Visiting Professor Aarti Gupta. climatechangeleadership.blog.uu.se/2025/04/09/i...
Inaugural lecture Aarti Gupta and Frank Biermann - Climate Change Leadership
Inaugural lecture by the 2025 Zennström visiting professors Aarti Gupta and Frank Biermann at Uppsala University
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by Frank Biermann

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Because of the many risks of solar geoengineering, we urgently need an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering, which is supported by 550+ academics and 2000 civil society organizations. More information at www.solargeoeng.org.
Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
Our initiative stands against such emerging initiatives to explore planetary techno-fixes as a climate policy option.
www.solargeoeng.org
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by Frank Biermann

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“The UK government should not encourage false solutions like solar geoengineering and the people of the UK should not stand for it.” A clear and important piece by Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann
Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials
www.theguardian.com
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by Frank Biermann

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Forthcoming with Routledge:
"Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals--An A-Z Guide"
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by Frank Biermann — Reposted by: Louise Willemen

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Utrecht University is recruiting a new Dean for our Faculty of Geosciences!

The faculty covers Earth Sciences; Physical Geography; Human Geography & Spatial Planning; & the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. Altogether 3,700 students & 900 staff.

Join us!

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences
Are you a leading researcher, experienced administrator and people connector? Do you have a heart for geosciences, with a focus on sustainability and impact?
www.uu.nl
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by Frank Biermann — Reposted by: Helge Jörgens

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The Earth System Governance journal is now on BlueSky!

Join us at @esg-journal.bsky.social.

All articles are open access and can be downloaded free of charge, anywhere, anytime.

[And of course, we've deleted our account on what was known as Twitter.]
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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
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Here's a new critical piece on solar geoengineering in The Ecologist (w/ some of my quotes): theecologist.org/2025/feb/04/...
Weaponising solar geoengineering
Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.
theecologist.org
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by Frank Biermann

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I've been appointed Zennström Visiting Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, jointly with Aarti Gupta. From March to July, I'll be working with Uppsala’s outstanding climate policy team -- if you're in or near Uppsala, I'd love to meet up!
www.mynewsdesk.com/uu/pressrele...
Frank Biermann and Aarti Gupta new Zennström Professors of Climate Change Leadership
Professor Aarti Gupta from Wageningen University and Professor Frank Biermann from Utrecht University will become Visiting Professors of Climate Change...
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by Frank Biermann

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Huge congratulations to Dr Abbie Yunita on defending her dissertation, "Recursive Shifts: Manifestations of the SDGs in Contemporary Development Practice" just before winter break! A key contribution to understanding the #SDGs & a proud outcome of the #ERC #GLOBALGOALS Project! Well done, Abbie!
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🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨

"Three Pathways to Nonuse Agreement(s) on Solar Geoengineering"

Exploring possible ways to prevent the development of solar geoengineering. How can we overcome opposition from powerful states?

Led by Stacy VanDeveer. Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S089...
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by Frank Biermann

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More information on solar geoengineering at www.solargeoeng.org

by Frank Biermann — Reposted by: Prajal Pradhan

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Just interviewed by "Undark" magazine on the many risks and dangers of solar geoengineering. The article also highlights the alarming private investments pouring into this speculative, planet-altering tech. Open access: undark.org/2024/12/03/u... #ClimateRisk #Geoengineering
Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.
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by Frank Biermann

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“Vanuatu...proposed an amendment to the Rome Statute [to] recognize ‘ecocide’ as a crime under international law...to hold accountable those who cause severe & widespread damage to the environment ... through reckless emissions or dangerous geoengineering schemes” www.solargeoeng.org/statement-fr...
Statement from Vanuatu: Why a Non-Use Mechanism on Solar Geoengineering is urgently needed - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
Statement by Honorable Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment, delivered at Science Summit at the 79th United Nations General Assembly, 23 September 2024.
www.solargeoeng.org

by Frank Biermann

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“…at the recent UN Environment Assembly, Vanuatu and Fiji proudly stood with our African sisters and brothers in calling for a global governance mechanism to ensure the non-use of solar geoengineering technologies.”
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by Frank Biermann

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Vanuatu stands firmly against solar geoengineering, linking it to crime of ecocide: “Vanuatu is advocating for a ban or non-use agreement on solar geoengineering. ...such an agreement is necessary to ... protect the world’s most vulnerable peoples & ecosystems.”
www.solargeoeng.org/statement-fr...
Statement from Vanuatu: Why a Non-Use Mechanism on Solar Geoengineering is urgently needed - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
Statement by Honorable Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment, delivered at Science Summit at the 79th United Nations General Assembly, 23 September 2024.
www.solargeoeng.org
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by Frank Biermann

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More walk-outs from Twitter users:

www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
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