The Risks of Geoengineering - Accelerating Biodiversity Loss and Compounding Planetary Crises

• Deployment of geoengineering technologies risks violating the human rights of millions of people, ranging from the right to life to the right to a healthy and safe environment to children’s rights, and threatens to perpetuate neo-colonialism by undermining transformative solutions to the climate crisis while entrenching existing unequal power relationships. [...] Geoengineering is Geoengineering does nothing to address the root drivers of the needed to buy time to climate crisis, and no technologies have been proven effective in the address the climate long-term removal and storage of CO2, while SRM will not restore crisis. [...] Geoengineering deployment would also be inconsistent with a wide range of legal obligations and principles, including the precautionary principle, the obligation not to cause transboundary harm, the obligation not to pollute the marine environment, as well as the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the rights of peasants and people living in rural areas, among many other human rights laws. [...] This is by the IPCC.107 According to the Human Rights expected to lead to the additional production of Council’s Advisory Committee, “deterrence to cut CH4 and N2O due to enhanced primary production 112 emissions may be amplified in the near future by and the remineralization of sinking particles. [...] These include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimina- tion, the U.