Geoengineering in the European Union

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Poster's note: presented without endorsement.

https://eu.boell.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/Geoengineering%20in%20the%20EU_Final.pdf?dimension1=ecology

Geoengineering in the European Union

EU-financed projects and their implications for the European Green Deal

By Anja Chalmin

The notion of geoengineering includes a wide array of technologies that seek to intervene in and alter earth systems on a large scale – a “technofix” to climate change. There are many reasons to be wary of these technologies. They do not address the underlying causes of climate change themselves, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, thereby delaying the implementation of a transition away from fossil fuels. Moreover, as they are very pricy, they redirect funding and investments away from real climate solutions.

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