October 29, 2010

The 193 members of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, agreed on a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments.

Pat Mooney (Canada, RLA 1985) had initiated the Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E) campaign with the aim of such a moratorium.

He stated: “This decision clearly places the governance of geoengineering in the United Nations where it belongs, it is a victory for common sense, and for precaution. It will not inhibit legitimate scientific research. Decisions on geoengineering cannot be made by small groups of scientists from a small group of countries that establish self-serving ‘voluntary guidelines’ on climate hacking."

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October 21, 2010

Representatives of nearly 200 countries are gathered in Nagoya, Japan, from October 18-29, to agree on targets to fight the destruction of forests, rivers and coral reefs.

The UN names climate change as the major cause for the rapid losses in nature.Some countries spend billions of dollars on geo-engineering projects to curb climate change. "It's absolutely inappropriate for a handful of governments in industrialized countries to make a decision to try geo-engineering without the approval of all the world's support," Pat Mooney told Reuters."They shouldn't proceed with real-life, in-the-environment experimentation or the deployment of any geo-engineering until there is a consensus in the United Nations that this is okay."

May 20, 2010

The Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, SBSTTA 14, of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) wrapped up its two week-long meeting in Nairobi with the decision to forward a groundbreaking recommendation for a moratorium on all climate geoengineering activities, after a high degree of consensus was reached.

 

April 21, 2010

The H.O.M.E.-campaign has been launched. With this, Pat Mooney is at the forefront of the struggle against turning our earth into a laboratory of profit-driven corporations.

But he is not alone: several Laureates have already reacted to his call to join forces against this insanity.

Read Pat's appeal to his fellow laureates and David Suzuki's and Herman Daly's  reaction to it.

 

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