CIEL condemns the unlawful US & Israel military strikes on Iran. We express solidarity for all affected across the region.
These attacks violate international law, endanger civilians, & erode global security. The international community must reject the normalization of force: bit.ly/4seBEDg
⚠️Defence as a justification for deregulation: the military caveat in the Climate Law🌍
Climate goals should not be pursued if seen as a “burden” on the EU’s military priorities 🪖says new Climate Law
More 🛢️🛢️🏭🏭 in name of defence?
Read more on 🔍Deregulation Watch🔎
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#UNEA7 just wrapped up two weeks of negotiations — and the outcome is a mix of progress, setbacks, and 11th-hour compromises. But there was also plenty of reason for hope.
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But solar geoengineering deployment is NOT inevitable - the time to get behind Non Use is now www.solargeoeng.org
Recent developments inc US-Israeli start-up Stardust’s plans to commercialise & scale up this technology over the next decade, and UK govt funding outdoor experiments through controversial research agency ARIA are deeply concerning..
Solar geoengineering would break the climate in new & different ways, creating regional winners & losers.
Untestable and inherently unpredictable, it carries supremely sobering and real prospect of intergenerational technological lock in or face termination shock.
As UNEA7 opens in Nairobi @theguardian.com Editorial spotlights African Ministers’ leadership in calling for a Non Use Agreement to put extreme Solar Geoengineering technologies permanently off the table, and refocus on real solutions to the climate crisis: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With recent revelations about US-Israeli start up Stardust’s plans to commercialise and scale up this technology over the next decade, and the UK government funding outdoor experiments through its controversial research agency ARIA the time to get behind Non Use is now www.solargeoeng.org
Solar geoengineering would break the climate in new and different ways, creating regional winners and losers. Untestable other than through large scale deployment, inherently unpredictable, and carries the prospect of intergenerational technological lock in or face termination shock.
❗Our HOME is not a laboratory❗
📢Today in Belém, Brazil at Cúpula dos Povos (Peoples Summit), we launched our renewed Manifesto Against Geoengineering - a clarion call to defend Mother Earth from geoengineering.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
@ciel.org @cjaourpower.bsky.social
📢 ❗Just published: "Solar geoengineering for profit"
In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
www.solargeoeng.org/solar-geoeng...
Their key message? 🧵👇
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Stardust and its backers cannot be allowed to flout international law by developing and normalizing this extraordinarily dangerous technology.
It’s time to put solar geoengineering off the table for good, and refocus urgently on tackling the root causes of the climate crisis.
Solar geoengineering cannot be safely tested, fairly governed, or ethically deployed. Deployment would create winners and losers, undermining the rights of billions of people and raising the central question of who gets to control the global thermostat.
🚨 Stardust Solutions, a US-Israeli start-up, plans to begin outdoor solar #geoengineering experiments as soon as April 2026, aiming for commercialisation and deployment this decade.
This accelerates a reckless race that threatens to put humanity on a path of no return.
It's time to put solar geoengineering off the table for good - the call for a Non-Use Agreement is growing louder and stronger - you can support it here: solargeoeng.org
Stardust and its investors are accelerating a reckless race towards the possibility of perpetual dependency on this extreme and inherently unpredictable technology
Solar geoengineering would create winners and losers, cannot be fairly and democratically governed or safely tested, and begs the question of who then gets to control the global thermostat
News that Israeli-US start up Stardust Solutions has now raised a hefty $75m, plans to start outdoor solar geoengineering experiments as soon as next spring and appears to be working towards potential deployment this decade is major cause for alarm www.ciel.org/news/us-isra...
Marine geoengineering is a dangerous distraction from real, rights-based climate solutions.
CIEL & FOE US urge states to uphold precaution, stop open-ocean experiments, and protect the ocean as a vital climate ally.
🛑 It’s time to hit the brakes.
This new brief outlines:
- The scale and scope of potential marine geoengineering deployment
- What’s at stake for coastal communities and ecosystems
- How international law restricts deployment and commercialization
- What states must do to uphold precaution and halt open-ocean experiments
These highly speculative techniques would turn the ocean into a laboratory and risk undermining the livelihoods of billions of people.
Yet experiments are on the rise with some projects already selling carbon credits in violation of international agreements.
🌊 Marine #Geoengineering is increasingly entering mainstream climate discourse .
A new report from CIEL & @foeus.bsky.social maps where these dangerous technologies may be tested or deployed.
The findings: no ocean basin or coastal state is out of scope.
🔗 Read the briefing: bit.ly/47rmsuS
CAN condemns the illegal Israeli aggression against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and its activists.
International law is clear. Israel is in violation.
We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel.
Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c...
#FreePalestine
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison. The British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been released from jail after serving six years for sharing a Facebook post. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu said on Monday that it is drafting a UN resolution to turn a landmark judicial opinion on states’ legal responsibilities to tackle climate change from words into “political action”.
🌐 With #UNGA underway, States must uphold the international rule of law to prevent the continuation of genocide in Gaza.
There can be no environmental justice while the universal nature of human rights faces such grave and flagrant violations.
🔗 Read our statement: bit.ly/3Iy1Bwi
🌊 Join us at #ClimateWeekNYC, as HOME Alliance brings together Indigenous Peoples, climate activists & filmmakers to spotlight spotlight climate scams like marine geoengineering and the growing global resistance.
🌐 bit.ly/HOMEatNYCW25
Details below ⤵️
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
A much needed & timely assessment of insanely risky geoengineering technologies by over 40 cross disciplinary experts
An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions.
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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This is huge. Africa is drawing a big red line, fighting back against efforts to normalise these extreme technologies.
You don't fight pollution with pollution, you don't heal the climate by harming it in new ways.
Its time for a Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement
@solargeoeng.bsky.social
