Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance

?? We’re hiring ?? Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance is looking for a passionate and dynamic Narrative Working Group Coordinator to lead our narrative work ?? This role is perfect for someone experienced in narrative strategy, climate justice, and network coordination Key details: ?? Location: Remote ?? Type: Part-time (1.5 days/week) ?? Start Date: Ideally May 2025 ?? Application Deadline: Rolling basis with a first review on March 15, 2025 ?? Find more information at https://lnkd.in/duMgvRcm #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoGeoengineering #ClimateJustice Indigenous Environmental Network Friends of the Earth International Geoengineering Monitor Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Climate Justice Alliance Third World Network ETC Group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration

?? #PressReleaseAlert?? Today, as the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) launches its report on scaling up Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR), civil society organizations and climate justice groups are sounding the alarm. ?? The hard truth? Carbon markets and geoengineering technofixes like Direct Air Capture (DAC), Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS), and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) are not the silver bullet they’re often portrayed to be. Instead, these approaches: ? Distract from real solutions like phasing out fossil fuels and ecosystem restoration ? Facilitate human rights abuses, land grabs, and harm Indigenous communities ? Give polluters a free pass to continue business as usual ?? These technologies are risky and unproven. We can’t let speculative and dangerous technofixes hijack the climate agenda. Real solutions lie in: ?? Ecosystem restoration ?? Rights-based, community-led climate actions ?? Phasing out fossil fuels The fight for climate justice demands systemic change, not dangerous distractions and false solutions. ?? Read our press release to know more: https://lnkd.in/gq-dxqW6 Heinrich-B?ll-Stiftung ETC Group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Biofuelwatch Geoengineering Monitor Climate Justice Alliance Health of Mother Earth Foundation Indigenous Environmental Network #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoGeoengineering #NoCarbonMarkets #NoFalseSolutions #ClimateJustice

Ahead of IPCC 62nd session, civil society including Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance is calling to center equity and real solutions, and end reliance on highly speculative technologies. ?? Large-scale engineered CDR and CCUS, whether land or ocean-based, risk grave harm to ecosystems and people, and have not been proven effective, especially at climate-relevant scale. Despite this, climate models that assume the feasibility and availability of technological fixes over-emphasize the role of CDR and CCUS and diminish ambition to reduce emissions and eliminate fossil fuels. ??Despite growing political pressure, in particular in the context of the near-future prospect of breaching 1.5°C, IPCC's AR7 must continue not to treat solar radiation modification (SRM), or solar geoengineering, as a legitimate response to the climate crisis. As AR6 has found, SRM would “introduce a widespread range of new risks to people and ecosystems, which are not well understood”. ??The global moratorium on geoengineering under UN Biodiversity was reaffirmed at COP16 in Colombia last year, due to the profound, unpredictable, and potentially irreversible impacts on biodiversity, while the UN Human Rights Council’s Advisory Committee has warned of the adverse impact on the fundamental rights of potentially billions of people. Read the letter: https://lnkd.in/d6htwtpF #NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoFalseSolutions #ClimateJustice

?? The Convention on Biological Diversity UN Biodiversity, which Israel is a party to, reaffirmed the?de facto?moratorium?just last year. While the moratorium has an exemption for small-scale research, a commercial factor is a key aspect of determining whether or not a project meets the criteria for this exemption. ???Last week, US-Israeli start-up?Stardust Solutions?cited and endorsed on its website a report describing its plans to develop and commercialize a highly controversial solar geoengineering technology. This would be a likely violation of the?de facto?moratorium on geoengineering at the Convention on Biological Diversity. #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoGeonengineering #NoFalseSolutions #ClimateJustice

The Arctic Ice Project is closing down its operations and?ongoing geoengineering experiments, citing environmental risks. The project aimed to spread tiny silica particles over Arctic ice to reflect sunlight and slow melting. This comes as more than 190 countries have reaffirmed a moratorium on geoengineering experiments at COP16. However, new experiments continue to take place. According to German non-profit Geoengineering Monitor, at least 27 ocean fertilization projects and 17 solar radiation management tests have been conducted in the last five years, despite global restrictions. With geoengineering gaining traction in climate policy discussions, its risks and governance remain contentious. While some argue for strict international regulations, others push for further research.

#PressReleaseAlert ?? Victory Against Geoengineering! ?? Indigenous Peoples, climate justice advocates, and civil society networks are celebrating the shutdown of the Arctic Ice Project — a controversial geoengineering experiment that planned to spread synthetic silica-based microspheres on Arctic sea ice to slow melting. ??? After years of criticism, the Arctic Ice Project has officially ceased operations, citing ecological concerns. This is a major win for community-led resistance to risky technofixes that endanger ecosystems and communities, and distract from real climate solutions. ?? Geoengineering is not a solution to the climate crisis—it’s a dangerous distraction that treats symptoms while allowing polluters to continue business as usual. Just a few months ago UN Biodiversity reinforced the precautionary approach to geoengineering, reaffirming the global moratorium. The failure of Arctic Ice Project follows a growing pattern: ? Harvard-backed SCoPEx stratospheric experiment—shut down ? Alameda marine cloud brightening project—shut down ? Carbon removal startup Running Tide—shut down This is a powerful message that communities will resist reckless experiments that put peoples, climate and biodiversity at risk. The fight continues for real #climatejustice solutions—rooted in emissions cuts, Indigenous knowledge, and systemic change. ?? Read our press release here: https://lnkd.in/dfC4jtAH #NoGeoengineering #ClimateJustice #NoFalseSolutions #HandsOffMotherEarth Indigenous Environmental Network ETC Group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration Geoengineering Monitor Friends of the Earth U.S. Friends of the Earth International Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Biofuelwatch

?? As we start 2025, read why youth climate activists Heleen Bruggink, Eric Njuguna (They/ them), Mohammed Usrof and Disha Ravi are raising alarm bells about solar geoengineering. "Countless scientists and experts have warned that solar geoengineering would give emitters an excuse not to end their fossil-fuel addictions and cause far-reaching unintended consequences. Using this controversial technology would thus amount to a profound betrayal of today's young people and future generations." Read the article here ?? ?? https://lnkd.in/dEFCYQSH #NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth #ClimateJustice #MondayReads Geoengineering Monitor Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement Fridays for Future India ETC Group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration Heinrich-B?ll-Stiftung

?? On December 11th, we hosted an insightful Teach-In on Geoengineering—one of the most urgent and under-discussed topics impacting our fight for climate justice. ? ??Our incredible speakers Eleni Sotos, Janosch Kamal Sbeih ???? , Linda Schneider, Panganga Pungowiyi and Silvia Ribeiro shared their expertise on discussing the types of geoengineering together with the potential, challenges, and ethical considerations surrounding geoengineering as a response to climate change. A big thank you Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance for collaborating with us to make this teach-in happen! ?? If you missed the session, you can catch up on the recording and explore the key takeaways from the discussion here: https://lnkd.in/dgBm7Zey #Geoengineering #ClimateAction #Sustainability #ClimateChange #FutureOfEarth #EnvironmentalImpact #falsesolutions

??? #PressReleaseAlert??? ???? Civil society groups, including Indigenous Peoples and climate justice organizations are deeply concerned over the European Commission Chief Scientific Advisors' recommendations on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) that were released today. ?The recommendations include negotiating a global governance regime for solar geoengineering, and while the European Union is advised to take a position of ‘Non-Deployment’ into these negotiations, that position would potentially be up for review every five years. ?? The recommendations also include authorising some outdoor solar geoengineering experiments, a clear red line for the Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance, as well as funding some of these. ? Geoengineering is not the solution! It distracts from addressing the root causes of climate change, threatening biodiversity, ecosystems, and communities worldwide. ?? At COP16 last month, the Convention on Biological Diversity reaffirmed its precautionary approach with a de facto global moratorium on geoengineering. ?? In this and last year, African countries supported by other Global South countries Fiji, Vanuatu, and Colombia led calls for a Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement, highlighting the growing resistance to these risky technologies. ??The EU Parliament has already passed a resolution calling for a Non-Use mechanism. ?? Now, more than ever, we must ensure that real climate solutions are prioritized instead of high-risk distractions. ?? Read the full press release and our members reactions here https://lnkd.in/dGkYDre8 #ClimateJustice #NoGeoengineering #NoFalseSolutions #HandsOffMotherEarth Heinrich-B?ll-Stiftung Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) ETC Group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration Indigenous Environmental Network Global Forest Coalition Geoengineering Monitor Third World Network Climate Action Network International

?? #PressReleaseAlert?? Governments at United Nations climate conference #COP29Baku have made a disappointing and dangerous decision to adopt Article 6 of the Paris Agreement opening the door to global carbon markets and geoengineering—a serious threat to #climatejustice. ?? Why This Decision Is a Step Backward for Climate Justice ?? Carbon markets are not a solution. They don’t cut emissions—they give a free pass to polluters to continue with business as usual. They open doors for #falsesolutions that don't address the systemic crises. ?? They offer a distraction from real solutions like just transition, restoration of natural ecosystems, and support for community-led initiatives that address the climate crisis at its roots. ?? It opens doors for Geoengineering, a false solution and speculative technofix. It creates new risks for our peoples, planet, climate and biodiversity and could undermine decisions like the recently reaffirmed moratorium by the Convention on Biological Diversity UN Biodiversity. Read our press release to know more ?? https://lnkd.in/dygsc_RM ETC Group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration Indigenous Environmental Network Heinrich-B?ll-Stiftung Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Third World Network Friends of the Earth International Geoengineering Monitor