Geoengineering

Boletín de prensa

30 de septiembre de 2011

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- Se corta el flujo del experimento británico de geoingeniería

- Parlamento Europeo señala su oposición a la manipulación planetaria

Los opositores a la geoingeniería del planeta tenemos dos razones para celebrar esta semana.

En primer lugar, el Grupo ETC recibió la información de que científicos del Reino Unido, en medio de controvertidas discusiones, pospondrán las pruebas del experimento SPICE, un mecanismo diseñado para disparar dióxido de sulfuro a la estratósfera con el fin de, teóricamente, enfriar el planeta. Dicho experimento estaba planeado para ocurrir en unas dos semanas. El lunes pasado, más de 50 organizaciones de diferentes países, enviaron una carta abierta al gobierno de Reino Unido, a los consejos de investigación y a los científicos involucrados, expresando... Read more

Boletín de prensa

5º de septiembre 2011

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¡Cierren la manguera!

El Grupo ETC demanda al gobierno del Reino Unido

detener experimento de geoingeniería

Según informes recientes, científicos británicos están a punto de hacer pruebas del equipo necesario para diseminar partículas de sulfato en la estratósfera, como preparación para realizar experimentos de geoingeniería. La geoingeniería es una propuesta de “remiendos” tecnológicos a mega escala que propone manipular deliberadamente el clima global, para contrarrestar los efectos del cambio climático.

 Ante ello, el Grupo de Acción sobre Erosión, Tecnología y Concentración (Grupo ETC) hace un llamado al gobierno del Reino Unido para que detenga este controvertido experimento y respete los procesos de discusión del tema que se llevan a cabo en el marco del sistema de Naciones Unidas.

Científicos de... Read more

 ETC Group

News Release

1 September 2011

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Hose down!

ETC Group calls on UK government to halt Geoengineering Experiment

In response to reports that British scientists are about to test the hardware needed to put sulphur particles in the stratosphere as a climate technofix, international technology watchdog ETC Group is calling on the UK government to halt the controversial test and respect UN processes underway to discuss these issues.

Scientists... Read more

Please sign on!

Open letter to IPCC on geoengineering

To see the signatories until June 17, download the PDF

(To read the letter in spanish or in french)

Rajendra K. Pachauri 

Chairman of the IPCC  

C/O World Meteorological Organization

7bis Avenue de la Paix 

C.P. 2300

CH- 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland

Dear Dr. Pachauri,

The undersigned organizations would like to express our concerns about the upcoming IPCC joint working group expert meeting on geoengineering to be held in Lima, Peru, June 20-22, 2011. 

Geoengineering, the intentional large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s systems to modify the climate, is one of the most serious issues the international community will face in the decades ahead. The prospects of artificially changing the chemistry of our oceans to... Read more

Signez la lettre ouverte!

Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri

Président du GIEC

a/s Organisation météorologique mondiale

7bis, Avenue de la Paix

C. P. 2300

CH- 1211 Genève 2, Suisse

Cher Dr. Pachauri,

Les organisations signataires de cette lettre aimeraient exprimer leurs inquiétudes concernant la prochaine rencontre d’experts du groupe de travail conjoint du GIEC portant sur la géo-ingénierie,... Read more

Ce rapport donne à voir le nouveau « plan B » en matière climatique pour ce qu’il est réellement : une stratégie politique permettant aux pays industrialisés de se défiler et d’éviter de rembourser leur dette climatique. Qu’il s’agisse d’ajuster le thermostat terrestre ou de modifier l’équilibre chimique de nos océans, ces solutions technologiques représentent une menace pour les populations et pour la planète. Le rapport propose un survol des antécédents historiques de ces interventions, ainsi que des fondements scientifiques et des intérêts qui sous-tendent le développement rapide de ces nouvelles technologies et des enjeux qu’elles soulèvent en matière de gouvernance internationale.

ETC Group at the World Social Forum 2011, Dakar, Senegal, 4-11 February

This week ETC Group travels to Dakar to meet friends and partners – new, old and yet-to-be – to learn, listen and share information about corporate power and emerging technologies, including their impacts on marginalized communities. In the run-up to the Rio+20 Summit in May 2012, the international community will be confronted with a challenging list of so-called ‘green economy’ technology and policy proposals – as well as major agricultural and environmental institutional decisions. Dakar’s World Social Forum gives civil society an opportunity to share research and plan actions in the months and years ahead.

Here’s where ETC Group & friends will be over the next week and a half.  Times, locations and local contact details will be updated on our website (www.etcgroup.org) as they become... Read more

The Geoengineering Moratorium under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity

On 29 October 2010, the Tenth Conference of the Parties (COP 10) of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a decision that amounts to a de facto moratorium on geoengineering and, almost as importantly, affirmed the UN’s leadership in addressing these issues. Since then, many commentators (both those opposed to and supportive of geoengineering) have circulated erroneous statements concerning the import of the decision. In this note, ETC Group addresses some of the misunderstandings about a decision we consider to be an extremely important step forward.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMedia Advisory28 October 2010www.etcgroup.orgETC Group, an international civil society organization that monitors new technologies, will hold a press conference on Friday 29 October 2010 at 10 am at the at the COP 10 International Press Conference Room (Room 3f, Building 3) in Nagoya, Japan.  ETC Group representatives will explain and comment on the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP 10 consensus decision to adopt a moratorium on geoengineering.  The press conference will be webcast at http://webcast.cop10.go.jp. The speakers:Mr. Pat Mooney  - Executive Director, ETC Group (Canada)Ms. Silvia Ribeiro – Director Latin America, ETC Group (Mexico)Contact Information:In Nagoya, JapanPat Mooney: mooney@etcgroup.org (Mobile +1-613-240-0045)Silvia Ribeiro: Read more

News Release29 October 2010www.etcgroup.orgGeoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in JapanRisky Climate Techno-fixes BlockedNAGOYA, Japan – In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will close its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments.   “Any private or public experimentation or adventurism intended to manipulate the planetary thermostat will be in violation of this carefully crafted UN consensus,” stated Silvia Ribeiro, Latin American Director of ETC Group.The agreement, reached during the ministerial portion of the two-week meeting which included 110 environment ministers, asks governments to ensure that no geoengineering activities take place until risks to the environment and biodiversity and associated social, cultural and economic impacts have been appropriately considered. The CBD secretariat was also instructed to... Read more

Briefing and recommendations for Delegates to CBD COP10 in Nagoya

Geoengineering is the intentional, large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s systems by artificially changing oceans, soils and the atmosphere. More than a set of technologies, however, it is a political strategy. Rather than nurturing and protecting biodiversity, geoengineering aims to create conditions that will allow us to sustain the excesses that brought on the current ecological and social crisis. It also allows the governments responsible for almost all historic greenhouse gas emissions to sidestep compensating the global South, which is not culpable in climate change but suffering its effects. In other words, geoengineering offers a technological “fix” to the same governments and industries that both created the climate crisis and failed to adopt policies that would mitigate its damage.

The consequences of geoengineering activities, including real world experimentation, are global. Before... Read more

ETC Group News Release 18 May 2010www.etcgroup.org

United Nations science body calls for halt on climate-hacking experiments

Geoengineering moratorium proposal will go to UN Biodiversity Convention

http://www.handsoffmotherearth.org/Nairobi, Kenya - A formal recommendation for a moratorium on all climate geoengineering activities is being sent to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for consideration by its 193 member governments when the CBD gathers in Nagoya Japan this October. Governments attending the Nairobi meeting of the scientific subcommittee of the UN Convention (SBSTTA 14) agreed late last week to forward the groundbreaking recommendation after a high degree of consensus was reached. In a related move, the scientific subcommittee also reviewed and supported the ongoing global moratorium on one geoengineering technique, ocean... Read more

ETC Group

News Release10 May 2010

As huge cloud-whitening experiment goes public, global coalition urges an immediate halt to geoengineering

First UN talks on issue in thirty years begin today

http://www.handsoffmotherearth.org

Amidst revelations in this weekend’s London Times newspaper{1} that a team of scientists and engineers funded by billionaire Bill Gates are planning to carry out a 10,000 square kilometer field trial of controversial “cloud-whitening” technology, over one hundred civil society groups are urging governments meeting on biological diversity in Nairobi to stop risky geoengineering experiments now. Geoengineering refers to large-scale technological schemes to intentionally alter the planet’s systems as a quick fix for climate change.

The San Francisco based “Silver Lining Project” directed by entrepreneur... Read more

Ne touchez pas à notre Terre mère!

Arrêtons la géoingénierie : notre planète n’est pas un laboratoire

Les sociétés industrielles ont donné lieu à des crises écologiques sans précédent : changements climatiques, épuisement des réserves d’eau potable, accumulation de toxines, effondrement des écosystèmes et accélération de l’extinction des espèces. La transgression des limites naturelles dans le but de réaliser des profits a compromis l’intégrité et la survie de notre Terre. Cette façon de vivre sur Terre est devenue insoutenable. Le bon sens nous dicte de passer à l’action afin de bâtir, au plus vite, une civilisation plus juste ayant une empreinte moins profonde sur la planète.

Hands off Mother Earth!

Stop Geoengineering - Our home is not a laboratory

Industrial societies have produced unprecedented ecological crises: climate change, depleted fresh water, build-up of toxins, collapse of ecosystems and accelerating species extinction. The transgression of natural limits for private gain has compromised the integrity and survival of our living planet, Mother Earth. This way of living on the Earth has become unsustainable. Common sense says we must act to build a fairer civilization, one that steps more lightly on the planet – and fast.

A bad idea whose time has come

But common sense isn't the only option on the table. A group of increasingly influential scientists, corporations and think tanks, backed by some of the governments that carry the largest climate debt, are proposing a different path out of this crisis: a Plan B. Rather than changing harmful... Read more

News Release - 21st April 2010 - For Immediate Release

 Hands Off Mother Earth!

Civil Society Groups announce new global campaign against geoengineering tests – urge public to join in.

www.handsoffmotherearth.org

Cochabamba Bolivia  - On the eve of UN Mother Earth Day, over sixty national and international organizations today threw their weight behind a common statement launching a global campaign to prevent real world deployment of geoengineering experiments.

Geoengineering refers to large-scale intentional tinkering with the climate and earth systems to counteract global warming. The ‘Hands Off Mother Earth’ campaign (or H.O.M.E. campaign) regards such geoengineering schemes as dangerous and unjust. It is urging individuals and organizations to speak out in opposing them.

“With rich... Read more

MEDIA ADVISORY

For Immediate Release

April 19, 2010

ETC Group attends Cochabamba Climate Change Conference: Presses for a Ban on Geoengineering.

Cochabamba, Bolivia - To advance meaningful international action on confronting the climate crisis, the Bolivian government is this week hosting a Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and The Rights of Mother Earth featuring close to 10,000 attendees. These include government representatives, social movements, non-governmental organizations and Indigenous Peoples from around the world.

WHAT: Civil society organizations are increasingly alarmed that the world's most powerful governments, corporations and individuals are moving to initiate real world experiments in geoengineering. These are large-scale proposals to deliberately alter the climate, for example by creating artificial volcanoes to pollute the atmosphere with sulphur particles. Proponents of... Read more

Press Advisory

Contact: Charles Margulis, 510-697-0615 (cell);

Diana Bronson, ETC Group, (514)-273-6661, (514) 629-9236 (cell)

Environmental Watchdogs Raise Concerns About San Francisco Company and its International Geoengineering Conference in California This Week

Climate Experiments Pursued for Profit Pose Serious Environmental Risks, Warns More Than 70 Groups

WHAT:            Press Briefing on concerns around this week’s “International

Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies”

WHERE:            San Francisco Foundation

                        225 Bush St (entrance closest to Sansome... Read more