AfriTAP

What’s new with technologies in Africa? AfriTAP presents out third newsletter: with updates on #geoengineeering, the #GMO battle in Kenya, and a breakdown of the #COP15 on biodiversity in Montreal: assess.technology/featured/whats…

📢 Scientists and civil society organizations raised concerns that the @overshoot_comm report could open the door to further solar geoengineering experiments and divert critical time and energy away from real climate solutions. #DangerousDistraction geoengineeringmonitor.org/2023/09/does-t…

Warning: #AfricaClimateSummit2023 supports neoliberal approaches to the climate crisis. Proposals for "blue carbon markets" are based on deployment of risky marine #geoengineering technologies, ultimate impacts on oceans and marine biodiversity unknown. shorturl.at/FNOS1

African challenges and problems need African led solutions. Africa has solution for its people ...stop the attempt to co-opt Africa and its energy systems @ClimateWed @afri_tap @msimire @tifekorede

Everything Geoengineering is falsehood....stop distracting Africa from real climate action. Africa shouldn't be tricked into another wave of colonization with this drive for carbon credits/markets @afri_tap @ETC_Group @EcoHomef @FoEint

📣Starting in 5 minutes! Learn about the risky and speculative technologies being promoted as 👀#DangerousDistractions 👀 from reaching #RealZero at today's civil society event. #BonnClimateConference #SB58 Click here watch the live stream: youtube.com/watch?v=7O-ulP…

#SB58 action alert ✊📣 Join us to hear why land-based removals, geoengineering & carbon markets are distractions that enable polluters to keep on destroying communities & the environment & why we must reject them. 🕛 6 June | 10am CEST 📍Conference centre, action location 3B.

School of Ecology is here again! 🥳 Happening June 5, we'll be using the power of art to illuminate the urgent need for change. With music, poetry and drama, we will centre grave ecological challenges and empower ourselves to seek solutions. Register: bit.ly/SOE-Arts-and-C…

“Regardless, advocates have tried to entice African governments by offering to fund research projects, claiming that more research will shed more light on the dangers and benefits of the technology.”

“Funding does not seem to be a problem for geoengineering researchers, however, particularly those in the United States.”

“Africa is already suffering the effects of climate change, such as drought, floods and erratic weather. And while geoengineering advocates see these technologies as a solution to such problems, the technologies run the danger of upsetting local and regional weather patterns”

“Without using the whole earth as a laboratory, it’s impossible to know whether it would dim anything, let alone how it would affect ecosystems, people and the global climate.”

“As a climate expert, I consider these environmental manipulation techniques extremely risky. And as an African climate expert, I strongly object to the idea that Africa should be turned into a testing ground for their use.”

My Continent is not your Giant Climate laboratory - @chuks_okereke fantastically writes for the @nytimes #SayNo2SolarGeo nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opi…

So last week, @GJEP123 interviewed our anglophone coordinator @rarespp. Hear what she had to say about Geoengineering in Africa..... buzzsprout.com/1785184/125102…

Profit-driven Corps are getting set to use Africa as a ground for testing risky Geoengineering techs in the disguise of fighting Climate change. This is unacceptable! @afri_tap is calling you to sign up for the movt. to learn and resist this move. bit.ly/3ynHY1s

Quoi de neuf avec les technologies en Afrique? AfriTAP présente son troisième bulletin d'information: avec des mises à jour sur la #géoingénierie, le #COP15 sur la biodiversité à Montréal, les #OGMs, et la Sommet Dakar II sur l’agriculture: bit.ly/3EuxLne

Chemical Pesticides that are already banned within European Union (EU) markets are still being used in #Kenya and #Cameroon. These pesticides containing hazardous molecules have been flagged as dangerous to human health and the environment. talkafrica.co.ke/banned-pestici…

Kenyan High Court Extends GMO Ban #BanGMOsinKenya @PeasantsLeague @KPL_Women @1000currents @via_campesina @LVCSEAf @FundAgroecology @CSRGKenya @KangemiMovement @city_shamba @routetofood @HBSNairobi @escorikoh1 @Tonny_Zucchini @MVIWATA @CefrohtUg @_ACBIO kenyanpeasantsleague.org/2023/02/13/ken…

Sustainable fish farming news.mongabay.com/2023/02/sustai… via @Mongabay