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.
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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.
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Overshoot Commission report endorses unproven carbon removal technology, opens door to solar geoengineering
MEXICO, PHILIPPINES, CANADA – As one of the first civil society organizations to raise the alarm about the dangers of geoengineering, ETC Group strongly opposes the Climate Overshoot Commission’s report launched in New York to
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Carbon Credits and Dangerous New Technologies in Africa
(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.)
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Episode 2 of 'Who will control the food system?'
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 an
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Episode 1 of 'Who will control the food system?'
Industrial agriculture is not so much jumping on the “Food Systems Transformation” band wagon as trying to steal it!
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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.
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The ongoing digitalisation tsunami is likely to usher in a new worldwide wave of gender-based impacts.
As CSW67 turns its attention to digitalisation, like the rest of the United Nations, this Briefing zooms in on less-discussed aspects of the ongoing digitalisation tsunami, which is likely to usher in a new worldwide wave of gender-based impacts, as the techno-patriarchy, along with Bi
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“Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis
As African heads of state travel to Dakar for the African Development Bank Group’s Dakar 2 African Food Summit, 83 African and international civil society organisations have signed a coll
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Further tests will not be permitted, say Mexican authorities
Mexico City, Mexico – On Friday January 13 the Mexican government announced that it will not allow solar geoengineering experiments in Mexico.
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Profit driven experiments reveal how quickly solar geoengineering research can lead to deployment
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