“Net Zero is costly and difficult and Ed Mibiland should slow down the transition” has been a common refrain in UK political circles recently, from Tony Blair to Rory Stewart to Kemi Badenoch. So we thought we’d write a bit of an explainer on where this fossilised argument goes wrong.

On 20th May 2026 the UK Climate Change Committee brought out its report ‘A Well-Adapted UK’, the Fourth Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk. It is a landmark in delivery to each of the UK’s governments independent, expert analysis of the immediate impacts of climate change, and the need across the UK for far greater efforts to adapt and prepare for climate impacts.

A short Happy Birthday message from The Borrowed Earth Project to Sir David Attenborough, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday!

An interview with Stuart Oates - ‘Fossil Free Farming researcher. Organic farmer, TV and Radio Producer, environmental journalist and cameleer in Cornwall who sings a lot’.

We were delighted to catch up with Stuart Oates to discuss some of the ideas we had first heard him discuss on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Farming Today’ programme.

With the news that TerraPower have recieved a construction permit from the NRC for their Natrium plant in Wyoming, and Rolls-Royce SMR have recieved Govt contracts to begin site work in Wales, its encouraging to see advanced nuclear progressing towards the all-important first builds in the US & UK.

The first casualties of wars are the people directly affected; the killed, the wounded and the displaced. Without diminishing that in any way, this article considers some of the impacts of past and present oil shocks on the world’s addiction to fossil fuels, and whether this can finally be a turning point in the energy transition.

A new report by the Grantham Institute sets out how 35 countries are planning their adaptation to worsening climate impacts, and finds that adaptation efforts are not keeping pace with the scale and urgency of emerging risks.

Written by Gustavo Adolfo Castillo Cruz, this guest article was originally published in the Oxford Climate Society blog, reproduced here with their permission.

After reading a fascinating article on “What the Rise of Motocycles says about Povery and Public Failure” on the Oxford Climate Society website, we interviewed its author, Gustavo Adolfo Castillo Cruz, about his backstory and his work.

On 20 January 2026, the UK government published its national security assessment ‘Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security’. Despite having almost no introduction, and little or no clues being given as to what we the public should all be doing about it, this is a remarkable, and bleak, assessment of the serious and urgent risks to UK national security from potential ecosystem collapse in other key areas of the world.

We kick off 2026 by giving you our top book recommendations from the three of us at The Borrowed Earth Project

This is our attempt to summarise where COP30 has left global climate talks, following our mini-series of blogs during the COP on; Implementation, Citites, South Korea’s Coal Phaseout, and Fossil Fuels.

In our penultimate COP30 Focus blog we dive into how Fossil Fuels have been treated in this and previous COPs, how non-COP roadmaps to their phase-out are emerging, and how the energy transition is steaming ahead anyway, especially in China.

In the latest of our COP30 focus series, we look at one of the potential highlights of COP30 so far, that of the Republic of Korea signing up to the Powering Past Coal Alliance.

In this, the second of our miniseries on the topics at COP30 that we should be focused on, we look at the role of cities in tackling climate change.

The first in our series of blogs on the ongoing COP30 process in Brazil. This article focuses on the topic of Implementation.

Climate change is in some ways not that complicated. Lets park our political views at the door for a little bit, and be prepared to believe both the science, and the evidence of our own eyes. You could start by visiting your local glacier. If there is not a glacier readily to hand, we can help. We visited the Hopper Glacier in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan on your behalf.

In this blog we interview Lt. General Russel Honoré, who led the federal response to Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago. While many local, state and federal leaders in charge during Katrina emerged with badly damaged reputations, Honoré became famous for getting stuff done and not mincing his words. Since retiring in 2008 he has taken that no-nonsense approach into environmental advocacy in Louisiana.

In this blog, we disucss all things data center. What are they? Why are they such a hot topic in climate and energy discussions? And what imapct might they have on our electricity grid and on climate change more broadly?

At The Borrowed Earth Project, we are signed up members of the fan club for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Here we recount what we found in a recent visit, and why it gives us hope.