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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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COP16: An opportunity to reinforce precaution on geoengineering

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Image of panel of speakers at COP16

by Kavya Chowdhry, ETC Group & Coraina de la Plaza, Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance

(See below: "Reinforcing precaution against geoengineering to protect biodiversity and communities", a briefing for COP 16 delegates, from members of the HOME Alliance)

This article was published 28 October, in ECO 70(6), the magazine of the CBD Alliance. It concludes with recommendations for governments negotiating at the CBD’s COP 16, in Cali, Colombia.

Corporate Capture of the UN Summit of the Future

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A recipe for a dystopian digitalized tomorrow

(New York, 20 September 2024) The looming environmental dangers of massive deployment of digitalization and unleashing AI are being effectively ignored by the UN Summit of the Future taking place in New York on 22-23 September 2024 [1]. Giant technology companies are using the summit to position themselves as the tech saviours who will solve the world crises, with final versions of the text concealing the stark impact of their activities on the planet’s environment.

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