Solar geoengineering: Growing scientific and political support for a non-use agreement
- 23 sep 2025
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Global resistance to the development and potential use of solar geoengineering technologies is rapidly intensifying. In a striking recent political development, the 2025 African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) —a biennial meeting of African environment ministers—unequivocally rejected solar geoengineering as a response to climate change. Environment ministers from across the continent called for a “non-use agreement on solar geoengineering”, noting their “unequivocal rejection of stratospheric aerosol injection and other forms of solar geoengineering as unacceptable climate solutions, given their significant environmental, ethical and geopolitical risks”.
Gupta, A. Solar geoengineering: growing scientific and political support for a non-use agreement.