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Guest article by Tamra L Gilbertson, MPH, PhD

This update on solar geoengineering in the troposphere summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil

Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds

The fundraising haul marks strong enthusiasm for experiments aimed at lowering temperatures, said the company. But it also raises questions about commercializing technologies with potentially damaging...

What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

The fundraising haul marks strong enthusiasm for experiments aimed at lowering temperatures, said the company. But it also raises questions about commercializing technologies with potentially damag…

Youth organizations in Ghana and across Africa working across climate justice networks, community development coalitions, and research-based advocacy platforms are drawing attention to a critical conc...

CIEL new briefing explores the biodiversity impacts of some of the most commonly discussed geoengineering approaches and how, rather than tackling the climate crisis, geoengineering could exacerbate i...

Billionaires are backing a geoengineering startup to reflect sunlight and save the world — or sell it off, one patented particle at a time

We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched an investigation into the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and the world’s biggest tree burner, Drax, over concerns about its sourcing of wood pellets to burn at its power station in Yorkshire. This investigation relates to shocking revelations from BBC Panorama and Conservation North about Drax’s continued logging of previously untouched primary forests in British Columbia in Canada and Drax’s £25m payment to Ofgem last year for misreporting its data on its sourcing of wood from Canadian forests. Drax already receives around £2m per day in renewable subsidies from our energy bills to burn trees and the Government has recently undone stricter greenhouse gas emissions rules so that it can grant massive new renewable subsidies to Drax when the current subsidies end in 2027. At the same time, the Government is considering whether to grant Drax even more public money for its joint funding bid with the University of York, North Yorkshire Council and North Yorkshire Combined Authority to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre at Drax as part of an ‘Artificial Intelligence Growth Zone’. If these new subsidies go ahead and Drax’s AI data centre bid is successful, it will mean more forest destruction, more pollution of communities, more harm to nature and even more climate-wrecking emissions - all at our expense. The Government has not yet finalised the contract with Drax for the new subsidies and it still has time to reconsider its plans to waste around £1.8 billion of our money on a big polluter that has been fined multiple times for air pollution violations and that is now under being investigated by the UK’s financial watchdog. Please contact your MP today and ask them to speak up for forests, wildlife, communities and the climate by calling on the Government to reject Drax’s AI data centre funding bid and to halt plans for Drax’s new subsidies.

As climate risks grow, geoengineering may accelerate biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. Learn why real solutions — not speculation — are needed.