Frank Biermann

Political and legal research for a world that is more equal, less wasteful, more inclusive and in balance with nature.

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African Countries Call for Non-Use of Solar Geoengineering in UN Environment Assembly

The 6th United Nations Environment Assembly, held in February 2024 in Nairobi, will be remembered as one of the first intense...

“We remain committed”: Reflections on the 2023 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

It’s sustainability summit season in New York City again. On 10-19 July 2023, hundreds of diplomats and ministers, activists, journalists...

Mexico Bans Solar Geoengineering Experiments

Should governments try to artificially cool the planet through ‘climate engineering’, for instance by injecting tons of...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals haven’t had much impact so far

In September 2015, the United Nations went into verbal overdrive. World leaders convened in the UN assembly hall in New York to sign on...