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.

As COP28 wrapped up in Dubai, and 2024 begins, we take a look at the year ahead. What will 2024 bring, and what should we focus on to help fight climate change?

The environment and action on climate change lost three highly experienced and hugely talented champions in October 2023, in Saleemul Huq, John Vidal & Pete Betts. But the work that they did will endure, and the remarkable new generations of climate activists will benefit from it as they take up the baton and run the next relays.

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