Climate Resources for a Better Future

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.

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.