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ETC Group reinvigorates its quest to track emerging technologies and scrutinise corporate concentration

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Thu, 2025-08-14 09:08

On our 40th anniversary and following our 2025 AGM, ETC Group’s Board and Staff met for four days in Madrid, in early August, to build a new plan of action, laser-focused on challenging corporate concentration and tech ‘broligarchy’ chauvinism

ETC Group board and staff group photo, Plaza Mayor, Madrid

We see a gathering tsunami of emerging (and converging) corporate technologies being super-charged by increasingly rapid developments in digital/AI, bioengineering and geoengineering technologies. The new corporate constellation of a few men with vast personal wealth operating within the existing hegemonic capitalist financial system is also being used to influence key governmental policy-making spaces, sidelining democratic processes and excluding civil society.

AfriTAP Webinar Exposes the Growing Threat of Biodigital Technologies to Africa’s Food Sovereignty

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Mon, 2025-07-21 06:04

AfriTAP, AFSA and ETC’s online webinar on “Understanding Biodigital Technologies: A Global Overview and Impact on Food Systems” was led by Jim Thomas of Scan the Horizon

Webinar link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAN3cYNMNmY

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African Leadership Rejects Solar Geoengineering at AMCEN20

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Fri, 2025-07-18 10:57

As the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment draws to a close in Nairobi, climate justice movements are celebrating the leadership of African governments in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies.

18 July, 2025

Nairobi, Kenya

As the 20th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN20) comes to an end, climate justice groups and movements are celebrating African governments continued leadership in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies.

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Ditching techno-patriarchy and the ‘permacrisis’

Report cover art showing digital game console being used to manipulate small farms

A Future of Farms without Farmers?

Report cover showing a spanner around the planet

False Solutions Alert: Geoengineering in Climate Negotiations

Communique cover showing artist's interpretation of digital agriculture

Hijacking food systems: technofix takeover at the FSS

Envisaging rice farming in 2045 under two very different food systems

A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045

Forcing the Farm

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Briefings

Global South-washing

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Thu, 2024-10-17 06:02

How The Degrees Initiative is imposing its solar geoengineering agenda onto climate research in the Global South

To read the whole briefing online or to download a pdf version please go to geoengineeringmonitor.org

The DEveloping country Governance REsearch and Evaluation for SRM (Degrees) Initiative’s stated aim is to facilitate the participation of countries in the Global South in research relating to the deployment and governance of solar geoengineering, referred to as Solar Radiation Management (SRM).

Protect coastal and marine biodiversity from geoengineering

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Wed, 2024-05-08 08:48

Briefing for delegates at SBSTTA 26

In a wave of “blue carbon” hype, oceans and coastal areas are increasingly pitched as tools to fight global warming. Around the globe dozens of new projects are projected to increase the ocean's capacity to absorb CO2 with a view to selling the carbon credits generated commercially.