05.02.2021

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PR Newswire: Women in Climate Tech Launches

"The launch of Women in Climate Tech (WiCT) was announced today by the group's Steering Committee. The organization's mission is to empower and amplify the voices of women working in this burgeoning industry and to grow the share of females represented who will work on this issue for generations to come."

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13.01.2021

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Forbes: Women Launch First Voluntary Scalable Marketplace For ‘Carbon Removal’ To Help Corporations Reach Net Zero

'Puro.earth is a Finnish startup company launched by two women (and their male co-founder) that aims to provide the world’s first marketplace for the nascent business of selling something they call “carbon removal.”'

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05.10.2020

# Calls & events

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Call for Abstracts: Critical Geographies of Geoengineering (AAG 2021)

Deadline: 20. October 2020

"This session aims to bring together broad perspectives in critical geography to examine the emergence of geoengineering technologies."

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18.08.2020

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Feminism in India: Geoengineering & Its Gendered Effects: A Case For Feminist Scientific Leadership

"The idea of fixing damaged biophysical systems through a one-size-fits all engineered approach is dangerous as it may have unintended consequences in different parts of the world."

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27.02.2020

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C2G: Blog post: Gender and Climate Engineering: A View From Feminist Science (Tina Sikka)

"Climate engineering technologies should to be taken up in ways that attend to gender-specific concerns. These could take account of differentiated impacts on women, their lack of power in decision-making, and the gendered nature of vulnerability."

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31.01.2020

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Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Manipulating Mother Nature: The gendered antagonism of geoengineering

"Mother Nature is once again the subject of the male gaze but this time the impact may be even more oppressive. This article expands the feminist concept of ‘male gaze’ towards nature and critiques geoengineering as being an inherently male/masculine technology that is a product of and a means to further capitalistic agenda."

Article summary in German

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19.12.2019

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Wired: Geoengineering’s Gender Problem Could Put the Planet at Risk

"A lack of diversity among scientists may skew how the public perceives the idea of hacking the climate."

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21.01.2019

# New Publications

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Sikka, T. (2019): Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice. The Standpoint of the Vulnerable

Sikka, T. (2019): Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice. The Standpoint of the Vulnerable. Cham, Cham: Springer International Publishing; Springer (SpringerBriefs in Sociology). pp. 15-44.

"This Chapter provides an overview of geoengineering research, including the status of current research and testing, the significance of modeling and simulation, the role of public participation, and the subject of governance. A discussion of geoengineering’s basic epistemology, values and background assumptions is also included with specific attention paid to the solar radiation management technique of atmospheric sulfate geoengineering."

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07.12.2017

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The Movie Blog: GenderStorm – How GeoStorm makes weather control a masculine project

"The disaster movie GeoStorm is more than unrealistic, as the genre ‘disaster movie’ already suggests. The movie contributes to a gendered, specifically “male” narrative of controlling the weather and the climate. While taming hurricanes, destroying thunderclouds, and adjusting global and regional temperatures cannot be said to represent a male fantasy of eco-political agency per se, the cinematic fabrication GeoStorm – with thunderous special effects and a highly generic storyline – constructs weather control as a male project. It can therefore be relabeled as a “GenderStorm”."

See also the German version.

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23.03.2016

# New Publications

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Nagel, J. (2016). Gender and climate change. Impacts, science, policy

Nagel, J. (2016). Gender and climate change. Impacts, science, policy. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

"Nagel said her research for the book points to how more women than men die in climate-related disasters around the world and how a male-centric approach to climate change policy too often focuses on treating the symptoms rather than addressing the root causes. 'For instance, geoengineering approaches focus on ways to reduce sunlight or bury and sequester carbon. These kinds of solutions ignore the causes of climate change, which is carbon dioxide production. We need to address the sources of climate change as well as its consequences,' Nagel said."

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