Geoengineering: carbon capture or corporate capture? Posted Jun.
10, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman and Kate Horner This blog
post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth
representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Eric Hoffman and Kate
Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 10, 2011 Dangerous
techno-fixes to the climate crisis are getting a lot of
attention these days in Bonn. Two blocks away from the climate
talks, the Convention on Biological Diversity held a workshop
today on geoengineering to discuss definitions, possible impacts
and “regulatory gaps.” When the CBD issued a de facto moratorium
on geoengineering last year, it seemed like countries were being
sensible in recognizing the extreme and possibly irreversible
dangers of geoengineering, but meetings like the one held today
suggest there is strong momentum to get geoengineering underway
quickly. Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC,
even told the Guardian recen