Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance

🌍 Webinar Invitation: Who funds and who pays?
How solar #geoengineering research
is being bankrolled

Explore who is driving the rapid rise in funding for SRM research & why it matters.

📅 26 March 2026⏰ 2–3PM UTC 🌐 EN/ES/FR

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Who Funds and Who Pays: | Heinrich Böll Stiftung Private tech money is rapidly accelerating solar geoengineering research. Funding has increased more than tenfold since 2020, largely from the US and UK. Who shapes decisions on these high-risk techno...

📘 Read the full report by @ecologyboell.bsky.social here:

www.boell.de/en/2026/03/0...

#ClimateJustice #HandsOffMotherEarth #HandsOffOurSkies #NoGeoengineering

Press Release: Research Reveals Alarming Increase in Solar Geoengineering Funding in Last Five Years - HOME Alliance

✊🏽 We need real climate action not dangerous distractions or false solutions

📑 Read the press release here: handsoffmotherearth.org/news/press-r...

#ClimateJustice #HandsOffMotherEarth #HandsOffOurSkies #NoGeoengineering

@cjaourpower.bsky.social @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social @ciel.org

🌿 There are growing global calls for a Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement, backed by 600+ academics and 2,000 civil society organisations, warning these technologies pose unacceptable risks and cannot be governed fairly
@solargeoeng.bsky.social

💲 At a time when the world urgently needs real climate solutions, millions are being poured into risky schemes that attempt to mask warming rather than address the root causes of the hashtag#climatecrisis

🚨 The funding push has been largely driven by actors from the tech sector, raising serious questions about whose interests these high-risk technologies would ultimately serve

⭕ Most recipients are universities and government research institutions

⭕ Private funding heavily supports pro-geoengineering advocacy and awareness building

🔎 Key findings reveal:

⭕ Over 80% of funding comes from philanthropic foundations, tech billionaires and the UK government

⭕ 166 organizations have received funding globally

#PressReleaseAlert

📖 A new report launched today by @boell.de "Who Funds and Who Pays: the funding of solar geoengineering” reveals that funding jumped from under $6 million in 2020 to over $60 million by 2025
@foeint.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social @solargeoeng.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social

Geoengineering the stratosphere: Funding for high-altitude geoengineering research is increasing massively  - Geoengineering Monitor This update on Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil

In 2025, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) launched the largest government research programme on solar geoengineering to date, including five projects planning outdoor experiments.

Close-up of SRM funding trends in 2025: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/geoengineeri...

🔸Most private funders in solar geoengineering have strong ties to the tech sector.

🔸Funding is highly concentrated in the Global North.

🔸Most funding originates in the US and the UK, and nearly two-thirds of funding recipients are based in the US or Europe.

Who Funds and Who Pays: | Heinrich Böll Stiftung Private tech money is rapidly accelerating solar geoengineering research. Funding has increased more than tenfold since 2020, largely from the US and UK. Who shapes decisions on these high-risk techno...

🧵Solar geoengineering funding increased >10x since 2020. www.boell.de/en/2026/03/0...

New report - Who Funds and Who Pays: The Funding of Solar Geoengineering, 2020-2025 - shows sharp rise in private & public investment, w/ new peaks in 2024 & 2025.

Who is funding - and where does the money go? ⬇️

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There are problems with a geoengineering techno-fix for the climate crisis | Mike Hulme Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse

🧾Read the full @theguardian.com article here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoFalseSolutions #RealClimateSolutions #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

👉 Real climate action must focus on cutting emissions and transforming energy and development systems. Pursuing techno-fixes as substitutes divert attention and resources from what truly matters.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth #RealClimateSolutions
@ienearth.bsky.social

❗️It does little to address the risks to communities and ecosystems and instead runs the risk of making some of these harms worse.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth #NoFalseSolutions #RealClimateSolutions #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
@foeint.bsky.social @cjaourpower.bsky.social

❗️It may shave off a few hundredths, or possibly two or three tenths, of a degree Celsius but it doesn’t do it by removing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere but instead by adding new elements, active particles, into the atmosphere.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth @etcgroup.bsky.social

🚨Geoengineering isn’t the climate “magic bullet” it’s often sold as
❗️Schemes like Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) include spraying particles to cool the atmosphere but don’t address the root cause of #climatecrisis like greenhouse gas emissions.
@solargeoeng.bsky.social @ciel.org

Dr. Aarti Gupta writes how a growing movement of governments and scholars is calling for an international non-use agreement on solar geoengineering, rejecting it as a climate solution.
https://policylabs.frontiersin.org/content/policy-outlook-solar-geoengineering
#ClimateJustice #NoGeoengineering

Polar Geoengineering: A Risky Experiment That Will Not Fix Climate Change Earth’s climate is warming because we burn fossil fuels for electricity, transport, heating, and food production, and this releases greenhouse gases. The polar regions (the Arctic and Antarctic) are warming faster than anywhere else, and ice melting there will affect the whole planet. To stop the melting, we must reduce fossil fuel use. However, some people believe reducing fossil fuel use is too difficult or expensive and suggest developing technologies to control the climate. These ideas are called geoengineering. But geoengineering is risky, expensive, slow to develop, and may not work. It also requires global cooperation and could harm fragile polar ecosystems. The best solution is to cut greenhouse gas emissions. We already have the technology to do so, it is proven to work, and it will benefit everyone, including the polar regions, if we act now. Cutting emissions is the safest and most effective way to protect our planet.

This holiday season we share this guide by Frontiers on how to explain geoengineering to young, inquisitive minds seeing answers about climate justice. 
Click here to read it: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1633572

#ClimateJustice #RealSolutions

#WeekendLongRead
@wired.com investigates how geoengineering startup Running Tide collapsed after failing to scale seaweed capture and dumping wood chips left behind thousands of unverified carbon credits. https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-next-big-thing-in-carbon-removal-sunk-without-a-trace/

🚨 Las actividades de Stardust y el jugoso negocio que ésta avizora puede desatar una carrera para desarrollar estas propuestas a nivel comercial.

➡️ Lee este artículo de opinión de Silvia Ribeiro www.jornada.com.mx/2025/11/29/o...

#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth #ClimateJustice

🔴 En el contexto de injusticia, inequidad y tensiones geopolíticas que prima en el mundo, la geoingeniería solar no se puede gobernar ni manejar democráticamente, por lo que su investigación y desarrollo abona directamente a favorecer las desigualdades existentes.
@solargeoeng.bsky.social

BLOG: When “Inclusion” Dilutes Justice - Why Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement Must Not Be Reframed - HOME Alliance

📖 Read the blog here: handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/bl...

#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffAfrica #ClimateJustice #NoFalseSolutions #RealSolutions

🚨 For frontline communities across Africa SRM is not a climate solution. It is a high risk techno-political experiment with global consequences.

🚨 "When organizations conflate inclusive dialogue with neutral framing of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), or when youth engagement obscures controversy, the momentum shifts away from bold political demands, such as an International Non-Use Agreement"

#BlogAlert
🖋️ At UN Environment Assembly #UNEA7, Dr. Dr. Mfoniso Xael unpacks whose interests are served by changing the nomenclature from geoengineering to climate intervention? 🧵
@boell.de @solargeoeng.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social

The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science

Read more in @theguardian.com here:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffAfrica #ClimateJustice #NoFalseSolutions #RealSolutions #UNEA7 #COP30