COP28 has concluded with the signing of the “UAE Consensus”. What is included in this final text and what does it mean?

COP28 began in Dubai with a big announcement, that a long awaiting fund for loss and damage has been started. Other key moments included King Charles’ speech, and agreements on food and renewable energy. Thornier issues await in week 2 however.

COP28 will feature the first Global Stocktake, which is intended to be a five yearly review and assessment of the global response to climate change. Find out what this entails and why it matters in this summary.

The Borrowed Earth Project spoke to young climate activist Riaz Ahmed about his climate work in northern Pakistan, and what he would most like to see come out of the climate discussions at COP28. Find the full interview here.

On 8 November 2023, the Stockholm Environment Institute, E3G, International Institute for Sustainable Development and UNEP published “The Production Gap: Phasing down or phasing up? Top fossil fuel producers plan ever more extraction despite climate promises.”

Read about this important intervention here.

Field updates from our young climate researchers in Pakistan!

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

On the 12th & 13th August our friends at MOCK COP held a Mock Education Minister’s Summit, resulting in a Youth Statement on Quality Climate Education. The statement represents the first ever unified youth definition of quality climate education.

How jet engines are designed to be as efficient as possible today, and what we need to do to take aviation to a Net Zero future - a guest blog by Kyra Thole-Wilson

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 climate emergency is here for the Earth’s tallest mountain, 70 years on from its first ascent, with two thirds of the Hindu-Kush Himalaya glaciers projected to vanish by the end of the century.”

introducing the Pakistan Summer Intern and Climate Research Grantees as part of The Borrowed Earth Project’s Pakistan Summer Youth Program

COP26andbeyond has a new name: “The Borrowed Earth Project”

On 7th July 2023 the IMO adopted a new strategy for reaching an improved set of climate targets. This blog explores whether those targets are enough, and what the future might hold for the decarbonisation of the worlds shipping industry.

Two weeks of climate talks were held in Bonn, Germany, concluding on 15 June 2023, as part of the preparation for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) due to take place in Dubai, UAE from 30 November to 12 December 2023. Find our summary here.

COP26 and beyond are recruiting a Pakistan-based intern for our summer climate internship program

In this very significant case, which has now gone to trial, and is being closely followed especially in U.S. legal circles, 16 young people from the U.S. State of Montana are bringing a legal challenge against their State government, saying that it is failing to deliver the promise in the State’s constitution for a right to a clean and healthy environment. It is one of the first real tests in a court of law of the constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment and will test the extent measurable impacts of climate change can be legally attributed to individual states.

COP26 and beyond are really grateful to Climates / Frome International Climate Film Festival 2023 for the Highly Commended award given to our film on Climate Carnage in Pakistan.

In March 2023 the United Nations convened 10,000 participants in a landmark conference on water and SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation. We wanted to find out more about the participation by young people in the critical debates on water and SDG 6, so we managed to contact Clara Brown, the Contact Point for the YOUNGO Water and Climate Working Group, who kindly answered some of our questions.

As part of our efforts to hear from young people working on fighting climate change around the world we were delighted to be able to interview David Okenwa, a climate activist and recent mechanical engineering graduate from Nigeria who also works for MOCK COP.