My Continent Is Not Your Giant Climate Laboratory
Several environmentalists last year presented Africa’s leading climate negotiators with a bold idea: A technology called solar geoengineering could protect their countries from the worst effects of climate change, they said. While insisting they were impartial, representatives from the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative said that these technologies, which claim to be able to re-engineer the climate itself, either by […]
Africa Is Not a Solar Geoengineering Test Site
In a recent Project Syndicate article, Chukwumerije Okereke, Professor of Global Governance at the University of Bristol and Co-Director of the Center for Climate and Development at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, and Nnimmo Bassey, Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, warn that experimenting with speculative solar geoengineering technologies on the African continent […]
African Ministers Call for a Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering
At its most recent meeting in July 2025, the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) reaffirmed, resoundingly and clearly, its unequivocal rejection of solar radiation modification technologies as having any role to play in addressing climate change.