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An interview with Gustavo Adolfo Castillo Cruz — The Borrowed Earth Project After reading a fascinating article on “What the Rise of Motocycles says about Povery and Public Failure” on the Oxford Climate Society website, we interviewed its author, Gustavo Adolfo Castillo Cruz...

We also sat down with Gustavo and interviewed him to find out more about his life in #nicaragua, his #climate advocacy and work with Climate Cardinals and Accion Inspira Foundation - you can find that interview here:
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What the Rise of Motorcycles Says About Poverty and Public Failure — The Borrowed Earth Project Written by Gustavo Adolfo Castillo Cruz, this guest article was originally published in the Oxford Climate Society blog, reproduced here with their permission.

What the rise of Motorcycles says about Poverty and Public Failure

We are happy to be able to share this blog by Gustavo Castillo Cruz on how the proliferation of motorcycles in the #GlobalSouth comes at a cost:

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#greensky

Biodiversity | Join Conservation Efforts Today — The Borrowed Earth Project Explore biodiversity initiatives and policies with The Borrowed Earth Project to support global conservation efforts.

And you can find more of our work on Biodiversity here borrowedearthproject.com/biodiversity

Biodiversity, National Security Assessment & IPBES 12 Plenary — The Borrowed Earth Project On 20 January 2026, the UK government published its national security assessment ‘Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security’. Despite having almost no introduction, and little...

It is surely one which Parliamentary Committees and eNGOs will need to focus on and interrogate.

Read more here:
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Despite having almost no introduction, and little or no clues being given as to what we the public should all be doing about it, this is a remarkable, and bleak, assessment of the serious and urgent risks to UK national security from potential ecosystem collapse in other key areas of the world.

Biodiversity, National Security Assessment & IPBES 12 Plenary — The Borrowed Earth Project On 20 January 2026, the UK government published its national security assessment ‘Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security’. Despite having almost no introduction, and little...

Biodiversity, National Security Assessment & IPBES 12 Plenary

4 days ago the UK government published its national security assessment ‘Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security’.

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#Biodiversity #NationalSecurity #UK #IPBES #Greensky

Pakistan’s Solar Revolution — The Borrowed Earth Project On a visit to Pakistan I noticed the proliferation of rooftop solar panels that has been a become a story of growing interest in the energy world. So whats going on?

Its very striking when you visit Pakistan how many houses have rooftop solar, even in poorer neighborhoods, we wrote about it last year borrowedearthproject.com/blog/pakista...

Reading List for 2026 — The Borrowed Earth Project We kick off 2026 by giving you our top book recommendations from the three of us at The Borrowed Earth Project

📖Reading list for 2026📖

"Read more books" is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions, so to kick off 2026 we have published a list of climate/energy/nature related books that you should add to your reading list for the year:

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What's on your reading list?

Reading List for 2026 — The Borrowed Earth Project We kick off 2026 by giving you our top book recommendations from the three of us at The Borrowed Earth Project

📖Reading list for 2026📖

"Read more books" is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions, so to kick off 2026 we have published a list of climate/energy/nature related books that you should add to your reading list for the year:

tinyurl.com/4rzs9ev2

What's on your reading list?

COP 30 Belém - An Overview — The Borrowed Earth Project This is our attempt to summarise where COP30 has left global climate talks, following our mini-series of blogs during the COP on; Implementation, Citites, South Korea’s Coal Phaseout, and Fossil Fuels...

COP30 in Belém - An Overview

Our last blog of 2025 summarises the outcomes of #COP30 in Brazil

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Ft:
🤝 Geopolitics
📃 Formal Outcomes
💰 Economics of the Energy Transition
👍 Reasons for staying the course
#Greensky

Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Save NCAR from being dismantled today! The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25

The man behind the fall of offshore wind David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?

We often think, “I’m just one person—what difference could I make?”

This story shows that, when we use our voice, the answer is: a lot.

So if one person can catalyze so much harm, imagine the good each of us can choose to support and advocate for.

Read more by @fieseler.bsky.social here:

‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries

From above Pahalgam,the Kolahoi glacier is a thinning,rumpled ribbon of ice stretching across the western Himalayas,once a vast artery feeding rivers,fields and forests,it is now retreating steadily,leaving bare rock,crevassed ice and newly exposed alpine meadows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is wild, the only causes listed are
>changes in earth's orbit
>variation in solar activity
>changes in earth's reflectivity
>volcanic activity
>changes in "naturally occurring" Carbom Dioxide concentrations

It's like Climate Denier bingo

Climate content for purpose, courage, and hope | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe Get more from Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon

For me, 2025 has felt like a particularly heavy year ... and you might feel the same. So as we head into the holiday season, I wanted to share a few recommendations — books, podcasts, and newsletters — that encourage me, make me think, and remind me how hope begins with action.

COP30 Focus: Fossil Fuels and the Energy Transition — The Borrowed Earth Project In our penultimate COP30 Focus blog we dive into how Fossil Fuels have been treated in this and previous COPs, how non-COP roadmaps to their phase-out are emerging, and how the energy transition is st...

#COP30 Focus: #FossilFuels and the #EnergyTransition

Our penultimate blog on all things @cop30brazil.bsky.social is below, answering why Fossil Fuels didn't make the final text, and looking at how momentum on the transition can be seen outside the COPs

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COP30: Global fossil fuel transition summit announced for 2026, as climate talks edge into overtime First international conference focused on transitioning away from fossil fuels to be held in Colombia next year, as key players slam COP30 draft text that fails to reference fossil fuels

Latest story on what is going on at COP30, which we will update with a story on the final deal at a time that is very much TBC. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522231...

COP30 Focus: South Korea Commits to Phase Out Coal — The Borrowed Earth Project In the latest of our COP30 focus series, we look at one of the potential highlights of COP30 so far, that of the Republic of Korea signing up to the Powering Past Coal Alliance.

#COP30 Focus: South Korea commits to phase out coal

In what might be one of the biggest wins of @cop30brazil.bsky.social South Korea has announced that it will join @pastcoal.bsky.social

Read more and sign up to our monthly newsletter here
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#Greensky

Interesting point "If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry"

Photo of global leaders at COP30 in Belem, Brazil

#COP30 Focus - Cities

The 2nd of our focus blogs on the main topics at @cop30brazil.bsky.social concerns Cities.

The forward plans of the #C40 leading cities are a powerful reminder that not all progress comes ‘top down’ from national governments.

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#Greensky #ClimateChange

COP30 STATUS UPDATE: We're tracking 117 substantive agenda items in Belém – and there's clear progress

7 – agreed
27 – draft text
12 – informal text
57 – not agreed/ no text
14 – postponed

Check our text tracker for more

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COP30 Focus: Implementation — The Borrowed Earth Project The first in our series of blogs on the ongoing COP30 process in Brazil. This article focuses on the topic of Implementation.

#COP30 Focus - Implementation

We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.

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COP30 Focus: Implementation — The Borrowed Earth Project The first in our series of blogs on the ongoing COP30 process in Brazil. This article focuses on the topic of Implementation.

#COP30 Focus - Implementation

We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.

borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...

Climate Change Made Simple — The Borrowed Earth Project Climate change is in some ways not that complicated. Lets park our political views at the door for a little bit, and be prepared to believe both the science, and the evidence of our own eyes. You coul...

Climate Change Made Simple

If you want to understand climate impacts, you could start by visiting your local glacier. If there isn't one nearby, we can help. We visited the Hopper Glacier in Gilgit-Baltistan, #Pakistan on your behalf.

Read more here:

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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics

“Yet again, powerful fossil fuel states are successfully blocking global efforts on climate change. This is not the result the industry wanted, nor one the world’s people can afford. Trump’s aggressive, destructive lobbying has their made this job much harder”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Primary Energy Fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy.

BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.

Electrification+renewables are far more efficient.

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A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech An afternoon with the Pope

Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
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A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.