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The meeting is expected to provide governments with a scientific assessment of geo-engineering technologies, but is widely expected to benefit from more research and possibly large-scale experiments, despite an international moratorium by the UN last year passed in Japan.

This week, more than 125 environmental, development and human rights organizations from 40 countries sent a letter to Rajendra Pachauri, Nobel Laureate head of the IPCC, warning that the body had no mandate to consider the legality and political appropriateness of using published Geo-engineering.

"Ask a group of geo-engineering scientists, though more research should be done, will you wear to ask if they honey like," said the letter, signed by groups like Friends of the Earth International, Via Campesina, and ETC.

Concern about the IPCC meeting centers, who should decide what type of geo-engineering takes place, and how it regulated and monitored. Some projects could, if they work, and might inadvertently alter the weather impact on agriculture and livelihoods in some of the most vulnerable areas in the world.

"[Geo-engineering] is not a scientific question, it is a political one. International peasant organizations, indigenous peoples and social movements have all refused to take measures such as a false solution to climate crisis words," says the letter.

"Geo-engineering is not a public good but could be a giant international scandal with devastating consequences on the poor," said Diana Bronson, researcher with international NGO the ETC Group.