The Borrowed Earth Project’s Zahra Sarfraz Chattha attended the 16th Biodiversity COP (COP16) in Cali Columbia in October.

In this comprehensive assessment of the talks, Zahra sums up the overall feeling at the end of the COP, and takes us through the ten key accomplishments and obstacles that remain on the agenda for future Biodiversity COP

With the Biodiversity COP (COP16) in Cali Colombia underway, we wanted to share portions of a previous blog covering the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, agreed by the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada in 2022, as a reminder on what has already been agreed by the 196 parties to the convention.

The Borrowed Earth Project was privileged to be able to conduct an interview with biologist and ecologist Xavier Tobin about the work he has been doing in Amazonia: and to relay the short interview that he did on our behalf with a member of one of the forest communities, Akilles do N. de Lima.

This article considers some of the significant recent developments and trends in the promotion of policy on nature and biodiversity. Like the childrens’ board game of Snakes and Ladders, this is characterised by steady progress and sudden pitfalls. However, the convergence of Climate and Biodiversity Laws that we at this website have regularly advocated is a positive and hopeful sign.

On 21 March 2024 the Chief Justice of India, Dr Dhanajaya Y Chandrachud and India’s Supreme Court handed down a truly historic judgement in a climate case, M.K. Ranjitsinh & Others v Union of India (2024 INSC 280).

Our film: Biodiversity & Climate Change. Is now publically available. Watch it here.

Introducing The Borrowed Earth Project’s New Film ‘Biodiversity and Climate Change’

We are working on our third film, on Biodiversity and Climate Change, and plan to have it made in time for COP28, but almost as important, we are keen to contact youth climate groups who may be interested in showing it and discussing it with their members, so if that includes you, please get in touch!

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, agreed by the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada, in the early hours of Monday 19th December 2022, represents a huge first step on the road towards halting and reversing the precipitate decline in biodiversity and species extinctions.

In this blog we explain the context behind why the agreement was needed, and what it contains.

On 13 September 2022 we caught up with Dr Rich Young, Director of Conservation Knowledge at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and were privileged to be able to interview him about Biodiversity, and its place within the climate debate.

For our third article in a series on Climate & Biodiversity, we are privileged to have this expert contribution from Dr Richard Benwell, CEO of Wildlife & Countryside Link on the critical importance of the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Kunming, China in October 2021, and its links to the climate negotiations.

Our summary of the headlines from the recent biodiversity report from Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta

A look at two real-life examples of the impact on biodiversity of losing a species

Can UNFCC COP26 converge its aims with COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity - being held in China in May 2021?