The climate crisis has opened the door to a range of technological proposals that aim to preserve the capitalist system through modifications that do not question the root causes of the problem. Among these are climate manipulation or geoengineering. These initiatives —such as solar radiation management, ocean alkalinization, or carbon capture and storage— are embedded in the same logic of extraction, dispossession, and violence that produced the climate crisis in the first place. This session seeks to demystify technological neutrality and highlight the ecological, social, and political risks of these interventions. The goal is to foster reflection on how these false solutions divert attention away from the structural transformations that are truly needed.

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• 2025_11_5_geoengineering.pptx.pdf
• fin-geoingenieri_a_donde_estamos-silvia_ribeiro-nov2025-_boell-home-ga-pacto.pdf
• fundacio_n_böll_geoingenieri_a.pdf

• Carlos Tornel Global Tapestry of Alternatives – False solutions and the COPs
• Linda Schneider Heinrich Böll Foundation – The impacts of geoengineering
• Silvia Ribeiro Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance – Geoengineering: Where do we stand?
• Liliana Buitrago Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South – The Pacto and radical alternative

Moderated by Dolores Rojas Heinrich Böll Foundation, Mexico and the Caribbean Office.

• Global TapestryThe weaving of networks of Alternatives of AlternativesAre activities and initiatives, concepts, worldviews, or action proposals by collectives, groups, organizations, communities, or social movements challenging and replacing the dominant system that perpetuates inequality, exploitation, and unsustainabiity. In the GTA we focus primarily on what we call "radical or transformative alternatives", which we define as initiatives that are attempting to break with the dominant system and take paths towards direct and radical forms of political and economic democracy, localised self-reliance, social justice and equity, cultural and knowledge diversity, and ecological resilience. Their locus is neither the State nor the capitalist economy. They are advancing in the process of dismantling most forms of hierarchies, assuming the principles of sufficiency, autonomy, non-violence, justice and equality, solidarity, and the caring of life and the Earth. They do this in an integral way, not limited to a single aspect of life. Although such initiatives may have some kind of link with capitalist markets and the State, they prioritize their autonomy to avoid significant dependency on them and tend to reduce, as much as possible, any relationship with them.
• Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance
• Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South
• Heinrich Böll Foundation, Mexico and the Caribbean