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African Leadership Rejects Solar Geoengineering at AMCEN20

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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.

Victory at AMCEN!

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African countries unanimously reject Solar Radiation Management

African ministers made history in Nairobi today, at the 20th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), when they agreed to a text forcefully rejecting SRM and calling for a solar geoengineering Non-Use Agreement.

This is a huge win for Africa! The text was adopted without any challenge from African countries.

Hands Off Earth's Oceans!

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Civil Society Urges Governments to Protect Oceans From Geoengineering Threats
On the occasion of the United Nations Oceans Conference the Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance, including ETC Group, is calling on governments to take decisive action to safeguard ocean ecosystems from the growing threat of marine geoengineering. Civil society, including climate justice groups, Indigenous Peoples Organizations, human rights and grassroots groups are urging governments to take action to halt any ongoing current or planned marine geoengineering experiments.

Africa is Not A Laboratory

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Civil Society Denounces Degrees Global Forum: Solar Geoengineering is a Dangerous Neocolonial Threat

African civil society organizations are outraged by the Degrees Global Forum being hosted in South Africa next week, calling it an act of climate colonialism effort to co-opt the African climate movement, academics, and youth that will threaten the sovereignty, ecosystems, and futures of African peoples.

Global Declaration: Now is the time to take action for digital justice!

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The Global Digital Justice Forum, a coalition of civil society organizations from the Global Majority, decries the tightening stranglehold of political and corporate authoritarianism on the internet
Image of a factory in potential dystopian digital future

February 2025

The unchecked power of the Broligarchy—a handful of Silicon Valley firms operating in sync with current US government leadership—signals a broader global threat to the international rules-based system, human rights, peace, sustainable development, and ecological justice.

Towards Nyéléni III: Women, Oceans and Food Sovereignty

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On the occasion of International Women’s Day, on 8 March, ETC wants to celebrate a significant event we were invited to in Kerala last year.
Indian fisherwoman with banner

The Indian Fisherwomen Assembly took place in Thiruvananthapuram 5-6 November. It was the culmination of a series of workshops organised by the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF), along with other fisher people's unions, in an effort to implement the 2017 World Forum of Fisher Peoples’ (WFFP) General Assembly’s decision to have more women’s representation in fishworkers’ unions. 

UN climate talks could undermine precaution on geoengineering called for by the biodiversity convention

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by Linda Schneider (Heinrich Boëll Foundation) and Silvia Ribeiro (ETC)

Analysis: UNFCCC negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risk legitimising dangerous Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) schemes and undermining precautionary work being undertaken in other UN fora.

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