2 reports from Borrowed Earth Project Climate Research Fellows in Pakistan launched at Oxford University

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

On the 11th Nov COP29 begins in Baku, Azerbaijan. A COP of contrasts, on the one hand a petrostate with reports of O&G lobbying scandals the hosts for the second year in a row, and the COP is overshadowed by election of Trump in America pre-empting the USA’s retreat from Paris in 2025. On the other hand this year temperatures breached 1.5C, and climate financing needs to be agreed.

Exploring experiential environmental education projects in Pakistan.

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 High Court has upheld a challenge to the planning permission of the Cumbrian Coal mine, its mining licenses have been refused, and the last coal plant in the UK has closed. Does September mark the end of coal in the UK?

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.

Second in our series on how we can decarbonise the “have-to-abate” sectors: Iron & Steel, Shipping, Cement, Aviation, Heavy duty transportation, and Chemicals & Petrochemicals. Part 2 - Shipping.

William Wilson recounts a recent vist to see the play Kyoto at the Swan Theatre. The play dramatises the negotiations over COP3 that resulted in the famous Kyoto Protocol - a driving force behind climate negotiations ever since.

First in a new series on how we can decarbonise the “have-to-abate” sectors: Iron & Steel, Cement, Shipping, Aviation, Heavy duty transportation, and Chemicals & Petrochemicals. Part 1 - Iron & Steel.

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.

In this blog we break down how concrete contributes to CO2 emissions, and look at a promising breakthrough by Cambridge Researchers that may have cracked how to decarbonise this crucial sector

On 9 April 2024 the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg delivered a landmark judgement in an important climate case where 2,000 Swiss women, mainly in their 70s, brought a claim that Switzerland’s climate policies violated their rights to life and health under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) is a synthetic fluorinated compound. It is widely used in the electrical industry, but is the most potent greenhouse gas in existence. In this blog we look at SF6 emissions around the world and see how they are sneaking under the radar but causing massive damage.

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.

CERA Week, one of the world’s biggest energy conferences, was held in Houston in March. A speech by Amin Nasser, CEO of Saudi Aramco, raised some eyebrows, we take a look at his comments in this blog.

From time to time we feel the need to go back to the science for a reminder of the urgency of the cliamte change. Here is a summary of three recent important scientific reports.

The UK has announced it will leave the controversial Energy Charter Treaty. We explain what it is and why it matters.

In this blog we pick out three decarbonisation trends, one good, one bad, one interesting, from researcher Nat Bullard’s annual presentation.