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The Belgian Institute for Sustainable IT is a think and do tank founded in 2020, based on its French equivalent the INR. Our aim is to bring together Belgian companies, organizations and individuals, and help them succeed their digital transition while reducing the environmental and social footprint of their IT services and usages. Thanks to the support of our members and of public authorities, we promote digital technologies and services that are more sustainable, inclusive and ethical.

This article argues that resource and logistical constraints weighing on low-carbon energy and CO2 capture technologies are likely to pave the way for geo-engineering solutions such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), which demand negligible land, material, and energy inputs. This “climate transition without carbon transition”, though technically feasible, is far from being that simple, raising a whole new set of environmental risks as well as geopolitical, institutional, and ethical issues.

POLÉMOS est un groupe de recherche sur la décroissance. Indépendant et sans but lucratif, il regroupe un réseau interdisciplinaire de chercheur·e·s universitaires ou indépendant·e·s au Québec. Les études menées au sein de POLÉMOS et les rapports que l’organisme publie développent une approche décroissantiste et portent sur une variété de thèmes (énergie, santé, transport, justice, relations humaines, technologies, etc.).