Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse

On September 9th, 2025, we published the article Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects in the scientific journal...

Chukwumerije Okereke & Nnimmo Bassey warn that experimenting with speculative technologies on the continent is a grave act of climate injustice.

On 7 May 2025, the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) announced the list of projects to be funded under its £60 million solar geoengineering research initiative. Readers of this blog wil...

Inaugural lecture by the 2025 Zennström visiting professors Aarti Gupta and Frank Biermann at Uppsala University

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

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Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.

Professor Aarti Gupta from Wageningen University and Professor Frank Biermann from Utrecht University will become Visiting Professors of Climate Change...

Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.

Statement by Honorable Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment, delivered at Science Summit at the 79th United Nations General Assembly, 23 September 2024.

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As public policymakers and NGO advocates around the world meet in Baku for COP29, the urgency of the climate crisis grows ever more pressing. Yet hopes that the targets and commitments will lead [...]

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As global leaders deliberate in Baku, scientists stress the urgency for action and emphasize the pivotal role of national policies and local adaptation in bridging the gap between climate science and ...

Oilfield services exec denies climate crisis and is expected to support Trump’s plan to maximize oil and gas production

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This month, a climate change study looked at whether we could shoot diamonds into the sky to cool the planet down. But is it too risky?