Mary Church
@mmchch.bsky.social
Campaigning against geoengineering @cielorg.bsky.social. formerly FoE Scotland. views my own. she / her
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❗Our HOME is not a laboratory❗
📢Today in Belém, Brazil at Cúpula dos Povos (Peoples Summit), we launched our renewed Manifesto Against Geoengineering - a clarion call to defend Mother Earth from geoengineering.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
@ciel.org @cjaourpower.bsky.social
📢Today in Belém, Brazil at Cúpula dos Povos (Peoples Summit), we launched our renewed Manifesto Against Geoengineering - a clarion call to defend Mother Earth from geoengineering.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
@ciel.org @cjaourpower.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
❗Our HOME is not a laboratory❗
📢Today in Belém, Brazil at Cúpula dos Povos (Peoples Summit), we launched our renewed Manifesto Against Geoengineering - a clarion call to defend Mother Earth from geoengineering.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
@ciel.org @cjaourpower.bsky.social
📢Today in Belém, Brazil at Cúpula dos Povos (Peoples Summit), we launched our renewed Manifesto Against Geoengineering - a clarion call to defend Mother Earth from geoengineering.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
@ciel.org @cjaourpower.bsky.social
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📢 ❗Just published: "Solar geoengineering for profit"
In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
www.solargeoeng.org/solar-geoeng...
Their key message? 🧵👇
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In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
www.solargeoeng.org/solar-geoeng...
Their key message? 🧵👇
1/8
Solar geoengineering for profit - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
Advocates of solar geoengineering are dismayed. But why are they surprised?
www.solargeoeng.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📢 ❗Just published: "Solar geoengineering for profit"
In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
www.solargeoeng.org/solar-geoeng...
Their key message? 🧵👇
1/8
In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
www.solargeoeng.org/solar-geoeng...
Their key message? 🧵👇
1/8
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Stardust and its backers cannot be allowed to flout international law by developing and normalizing this extraordinarily dangerous technology.
It’s time to put solar geoengineering off the table for good, and refocus urgently on tackling the root causes of the climate crisis.
It’s time to put solar geoengineering off the table for good, and refocus urgently on tackling the root causes of the climate crisis.
US-Israeli start-up Stardust Solutions plans reckless outdoor experiments of highly controversial solar geoengineering from April 2026
US-Israeli start-up Stardust Solutions plans to begin outdoor experiments of highly controversial solar geoengineering. Its deployment is constrained by various norms and principles of international c...
www.ciel.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Stardust and its backers cannot be allowed to flout international law by developing and normalizing this extraordinarily dangerous technology.
It’s time to put solar geoengineering off the table for good, and refocus urgently on tackling the root causes of the climate crisis.
It’s time to put solar geoengineering off the table for good, and refocus urgently on tackling the root causes of the climate crisis.
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Solar geoengineering cannot be safely tested, fairly governed, or ethically deployed. Deployment would create winners and losers, undermining the rights of billions of people and raising the central question of who gets to control the global thermostat.
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Solar geoengineering cannot be safely tested, fairly governed, or ethically deployed. Deployment would create winners and losers, undermining the rights of billions of people and raising the central question of who gets to control the global thermostat.
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🚨 Stardust Solutions, a US-Israeli start-up, plans to begin outdoor solar #geoengineering experiments as soon as April 2026, aiming for commercialisation and deployment this decade.
This accelerates a reckless race that threatens to put humanity on a path of no return.
This accelerates a reckless race that threatens to put humanity on a path of no return.
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨 Stardust Solutions, a US-Israeli start-up, plans to begin outdoor solar #geoengineering experiments as soon as April 2026, aiming for commercialisation and deployment this decade.
This accelerates a reckless race that threatens to put humanity on a path of no return.
This accelerates a reckless race that threatens to put humanity on a path of no return.
News that Israeli-US start up Stardust Solutions has now raised a hefty $75m, plans to start outdoor solar geoengineering experiments as soon as next spring and appears to be working towards potential deployment this decade is major cause for alarm www.ciel.org/news/us-isra...
US-Israeli start-up Stardust Solutions plans reckless outdoor experiments of highly controversial solar geoengineering from April 2026
US-Israeli start-up Stardust Solutions plans to begin outdoor experiments of highly controversial solar geoengineering. Its deployment is constrained by various norms and principles of international c...
www.ciel.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
News that Israeli-US start up Stardust Solutions has now raised a hefty $75m, plans to start outdoor solar geoengineering experiments as soon as next spring and appears to be working towards potential deployment this decade is major cause for alarm www.ciel.org/news/us-isra...
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Marine geoengineering is a dangerous distraction from real, rights-based climate solutions.
CIEL & FOE US urge states to uphold precaution, stop open-ocean experiments, and protect the ocean as a vital climate ally.
🛑 It’s time to hit the brakes.
CIEL & FOE US urge states to uphold precaution, stop open-ocean experiments, and protect the ocean as a vital climate ally.
🛑 It’s time to hit the brakes.
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Marine geoengineering is a dangerous distraction from real, rights-based climate solutions.
CIEL & FOE US urge states to uphold precaution, stop open-ocean experiments, and protect the ocean as a vital climate ally.
🛑 It’s time to hit the brakes.
CIEL & FOE US urge states to uphold precaution, stop open-ocean experiments, and protect the ocean as a vital climate ally.
🛑 It’s time to hit the brakes.
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This new brief outlines:
- The scale and scope of potential marine geoengineering deployment
- What’s at stake for coastal communities and ecosystems
- How international law restricts deployment and commercialization
- What states must do to uphold precaution and halt open-ocean experiments
- The scale and scope of potential marine geoengineering deployment
- What’s at stake for coastal communities and ecosystems
- How international law restricts deployment and commercialization
- What states must do to uphold precaution and halt open-ocean experiments
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This new brief outlines:
- The scale and scope of potential marine geoengineering deployment
- What’s at stake for coastal communities and ecosystems
- How international law restricts deployment and commercialization
- What states must do to uphold precaution and halt open-ocean experiments
- The scale and scope of potential marine geoengineering deployment
- What’s at stake for coastal communities and ecosystems
- How international law restricts deployment and commercialization
- What states must do to uphold precaution and halt open-ocean experiments
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These highly speculative techniques would turn the ocean into a laboratory and risk undermining the livelihoods of billions of people.
Yet experiments are on the rise with some projects already selling carbon credits in violation of international agreements.
Yet experiments are on the rise with some projects already selling carbon credits in violation of international agreements.
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
These highly speculative techniques would turn the ocean into a laboratory and risk undermining the livelihoods of billions of people.
Yet experiments are on the rise with some projects already selling carbon credits in violation of international agreements.
Yet experiments are on the rise with some projects already selling carbon credits in violation of international agreements.
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🌊 Marine #Geoengineering is increasingly entering mainstream climate discourse .
A new report from CIEL & @foeus.bsky.social maps where these dangerous technologies may be tested or deployed.
The findings: no ocean basin or coastal state is out of scope.
🔗 Read the briefing: bit.ly/47rmsuS
A new report from CIEL & @foeus.bsky.social maps where these dangerous technologies may be tested or deployed.
The findings: no ocean basin or coastal state is out of scope.
🔗 Read the briefing: bit.ly/47rmsuS
A Gathering Storm: How Marine Geoengineering Threatens All Ocean Basins (October 2025) - Center for International Environmental Law
New brief warns: marine geoengineering threatens all oceans, risking ecosystems, communities, and climate stability. Precaution is not optional.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🌊 Marine #Geoengineering is increasingly entering mainstream climate discourse .
A new report from CIEL & @foeus.bsky.social maps where these dangerous technologies may be tested or deployed.
The findings: no ocean basin or coastal state is out of scope.
🔗 Read the briefing: bit.ly/47rmsuS
A new report from CIEL & @foeus.bsky.social maps where these dangerous technologies may be tested or deployed.
The findings: no ocean basin or coastal state is out of scope.
🔗 Read the briefing: bit.ly/47rmsuS
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CAN condemns the illegal Israeli aggression against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and its activists.
International law is clear. Israel is in violation.
We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel.
Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c...
#FreePalestine
International law is clear. Israel is in violation.
We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel.
Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c...
#FreePalestine
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
CAN condemns the illegal Israeli aggression against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and its activists.
International law is clear. Israel is in violation.
We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel.
Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c...
#FreePalestine
International law is clear. Israel is in violation.
We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel.
Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c...
#FreePalestine
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British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison. The British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been released from jail after serving six years for sharing a Facebook post. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison
Writer, who has served six years for sharing a Facebook post, was given a presidential pardon
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison. The British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been released from jail after serving six years for sharing a Facebook post. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu said on Monday that it is drafting a UN resolution to turn a landmark judicial opinion on states’ legal responsibilities to tackle climate change from words into “political action”.
Vanuatu pursues new UN resolution to turn ICJ climate opinion into action
In a landmark opinion, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said states have a legal responsibility to act on climate change
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September 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu said on Monday that it is drafting a UN resolution to turn a landmark judicial opinion on states’ legal responsibilities to tackle climate change from words into “political action”.
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🌐 With #UNGA underway, States must uphold the international rule of law to prevent the continuation of genocide in Gaza.
There can be no environmental justice while the universal nature of human rights faces such grave and flagrant violations.
🔗 Read our statement: bit.ly/3Iy1Bwi
There can be no environmental justice while the universal nature of human rights faces such grave and flagrant violations.
🔗 Read our statement: bit.ly/3Iy1Bwi
UN General Assembly Opens with Ever Greater Urgency to Uphold the International Rule of Law - Center for International Environmental Law
At the 80th United Nations General Assembly, States must uphold the international rule of law and protect human rights.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🌐 With #UNGA underway, States must uphold the international rule of law to prevent the continuation of genocide in Gaza.
There can be no environmental justice while the universal nature of human rights faces such grave and flagrant violations.
🔗 Read our statement: bit.ly/3Iy1Bwi
There can be no environmental justice while the universal nature of human rights faces such grave and flagrant violations.
🔗 Read our statement: bit.ly/3Iy1Bwi
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🌊 Join us at #ClimateWeekNYC, as HOME Alliance brings together Indigenous Peoples, climate activists & filmmakers to spotlight spotlight climate scams like marine geoengineering and the growing global resistance.
🌐 bit.ly/HOMEatNYCW25
Details below ⤵️
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
🌐 bit.ly/HOMEatNYCW25
Details below ⤵️
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🌊 Join us at #ClimateWeekNYC, as HOME Alliance brings together Indigenous Peoples, climate activists & filmmakers to spotlight spotlight climate scams like marine geoengineering and the growing global resistance.
🌐 bit.ly/HOMEatNYCW25
Details below ⤵️
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
🌐 bit.ly/HOMEatNYCW25
Details below ⤵️
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
A much needed & timely assessment of insanely risky geoengineering technologies by over 40 cross disciplinary experts
An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions.
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects
Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...
www.frontiersin.org
September 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A much needed & timely assessment of insanely risky geoengineering technologies by over 40 cross disciplinary experts
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An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions.
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects
Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...
www.frontiersin.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions.
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
This is huge. Africa is drawing a big red line, fighting back against efforts to normalise these extreme technologies.
You don't fight pollution with pollution, you don't heal the climate by harming it in new ways.
Its time for a Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement
@solargeoeng.bsky.social
You don't fight pollution with pollution, you don't heal the climate by harming it in new ways.
Its time for a Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement
@solargeoeng.bsky.social
🌍 African Leadership Rejects Solar Geoengineering at #AMCEN20
As the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment ends, climate justice movements celebrate African governments’ leadership in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies
handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/pr... ➡️
As the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment ends, climate justice movements celebrate African governments’ leadership in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies
handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/pr... ➡️
July 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is huge. Africa is drawing a big red line, fighting back against efforts to normalise these extreme technologies.
You don't fight pollution with pollution, you don't heal the climate by harming it in new ways.
Its time for a Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement
@solargeoeng.bsky.social
You don't fight pollution with pollution, you don't heal the climate by harming it in new ways.
Its time for a Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement
@solargeoeng.bsky.social
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On ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, CIEL’s Mary Church @mmchch.bsky.social & @matrixlaw.bsky.social's Kate Cook expose geoengineering as a risky distraction from real #ClimateAction.
It won’t solve the crisis and could make it even worse. 🌍🔥
🎧Listen: bit.ly/3IsCQ4j
It won’t solve the crisis and could make it even worse. 🌍🔥
🎧Listen: bit.ly/3IsCQ4j
A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law Part 1 - Matrix Chambers
A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law Part 1
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July 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
On ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, CIEL’s Mary Church @mmchch.bsky.social & @matrixlaw.bsky.social's Kate Cook expose geoengineering as a risky distraction from real #ClimateAction.
It won’t solve the crisis and could make it even worse. 🌍🔥
🎧Listen: bit.ly/3IsCQ4j
It won’t solve the crisis and could make it even worse. 🌍🔥
🎧Listen: bit.ly/3IsCQ4j
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🚨 Silencing dissent is a threat to us all.
We call on all States to:
⚖️ Uphold obligations under international law
✊ Protect the right to protest
❌ End reprisals
🛑 Stop enabling genocide, apartheid & occupation.
www.ciel.org/news/silenci...
We call on all States to:
⚖️ Uphold obligations under international law
✊ Protect the right to protest
❌ End reprisals
🛑 Stop enabling genocide, apartheid & occupation.
www.ciel.org/news/silenci...
Silencing Dissent: UK and US Actions Undermine Rights to Protest and International Law - Center for International Environmental Law
WASHINGTON, July 10, 2025—Two recent events demonstrate an alarming escalation in the trend of State efforts to undermine human rights obligations and international law relating to free speech and the...
www.ciel.org
July 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🚨 Silencing dissent is a threat to us all.
We call on all States to:
⚖️ Uphold obligations under international law
✊ Protect the right to protest
❌ End reprisals
🛑 Stop enabling genocide, apartheid & occupation.
www.ciel.org/news/silenci...
We call on all States to:
⚖️ Uphold obligations under international law
✊ Protect the right to protest
❌ End reprisals
🛑 Stop enabling genocide, apartheid & occupation.
www.ciel.org/news/silenci...
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A new direct action group calling itself 'Yvette Cooper' claims to have targeted Time Logistics for providing transport in Britain for Israel's Elbit Systems. Its message to the government on social media says, "if you want to ban Palestine Action, you'll have to proscribe Yvette Cooper too"
July 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A new direct action group calling itself 'Yvette Cooper' claims to have targeted Time Logistics for providing transport in Britain for Israel's Elbit Systems. Its message to the government on social media says, "if you want to ban Palestine Action, you'll have to proscribe Yvette Cooper too"
Palestine Action are acting in the spirit of the *obligation* to prevent genocide, in context of a deeply complicit UK Govt & clearly also Scottish political class
shame on each & every one of you who voted for proscription or abstained
ps **YOU CAN'T ABSTAIN ON GENOCIDE**
shame on each & every one of you who voted for proscription or abstained
ps **YOU CAN'T ABSTAIN ON GENOCIDE**
Peaceful protest is fundamental to our democracy.
Our movement must continue to pressure politicians to stop this crackdown on civil liberties and instead take urgent action for justice and peace in Palestine.
Our movement must continue to pressure politicians to stop this crackdown on civil liberties and instead take urgent action for justice and peace in Palestine.
July 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Palestine Action are acting in the spirit of the *obligation* to prevent genocide, in context of a deeply complicit UK Govt & clearly also Scottish political class
shame on each & every one of you who voted for proscription or abstained
ps **YOU CAN'T ABSTAIN ON GENOCIDE**
shame on each & every one of you who voted for proscription or abstained
ps **YOU CAN'T ABSTAIN ON GENOCIDE**
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I know I speak for millions of people up and down this country:
We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸
We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸
July 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I know I speak for millions of people up and down this country:
We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸
We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸
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If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
This NEW Law is TERRIFYING & Will SILENCE Us All
www.doubledown.news
June 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
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UN rapporteur says tech firms and corporations profiting from Israeli genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-israel-corporations-economy-genocide-report-reveals
UN rapporteur says tech firms and corporations profiting from Israeli genocide
Francesca Albanese says major tech companies and executives should be held to account in new report documenting profiteering from Israeli 'displacement and replacement' of Palestinians
www.middleeasteye.net
July 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
UN rapporteur says tech firms and corporations profiting from Israeli genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-israel-corporations-economy-genocide-report-reveals