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

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

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

African Leadership Rejects Solar Geoengineering at AMCEN20

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.

Briefings

Global South-washing

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

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.