This page contains a number of interviews we have conducted over the last few years with young engineers, activists, climate scientists, entrepreneurs & CEOs, working on climate change solutions across many different sectors, industries and geographies.
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.
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.
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.
We cannot think of a better way for this website to celebrate the New Year than to relay to all of our followers at COP26 and beyond this brilliant series of interviews put together by the Protect Our Planet ‘POP’ Movement and Planet Classroom Network! It has so much of what we best like and most admire!
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.
In this blog, Shreya KC, a young climate activist from Nepal, gives us a fascinating update on recent climate negotiations being held in Bonn, Germany in preparation for COP27 in Egypt later this year. Shreya was a campaign coordinator for our friends at MOCK COP and the national youth delegate from Nepal to COP26, she also delivered the opening plenary statement on behalf of YOUNGO at Bonn so is incredibly well-placed to update us on the progress in the most recent climate talks.
On 31 May 2022 we were lucky enough to be able to interview Bilal Anwar, CEO of Pakistan’s National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF), an enormously experienced ‘climate policy practitioner’ with wide responsibilities in his home country.
In Nov 2021 we sat down with Kirils Holstovs, bridge engineer and one of the lead authors of the COP26 Joint Statement of International Youth Organisations, to discuss the statement and his experiences at COP26
Before our Engineering for the Energy Transition event at the #All4Climate Italy 2021 Summit in Sept 2021, we sat down with Evangelos Pastras, one of our speakers, to talk all things battery storage.
An interview with engineer Ajai Ahluwalia - a speaker at COP26andbeyond’s ‘Climate Change and Your Career’ event on 21st May
We interviewed Henry Preston, scientist at the National Nuclear Laboratory and YGN outreach coordinator, in advance of our Engineering for the Energy Transition Event.
We interviewed Dr Daisy Thomas, lead automotive research engineer at 3DATX, in advance of our Engineering for the Energy Transition Event.
COP26andbeyond interviewed Vikrant Srivastava, a climate activist and commentator, to talk about India’s coal industry.