Climate Change

William Wilson offers advice on law and regulation covering climate change, energy transition and net zero.

He is Recommended in Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) Climate Change 2025

https://www.lexology.com/wwl/report/environment-climate-change

Examples of recent work include -

• Work with The Borrowed Earth Project to mentor Research Grantees and producing their reports on waste management in Karachi, Sindh and on responses by farmers and teachers to flooding and climate change in Lakki Marwat and Swat, Khyber Paktunkwa, Pakistan - launch of their reports at Oxford Climate Society
  

• The Borrowed Earth Project monthly newsletter and regular climate columns
  

• Work with co-founders and external authors to cover and report on COP 16 Biodiversity summit, Cali, Colombia, 2024, and COP29 Climate talks, Baku, Azerbaijan 2024
  

• 2023 Film '“Biodiversity and Climate Change” - a short film on what biodiversity is, why it matters, how it is threatened, links to climate change, and what is being done to reverse these trends; publicly released 2024 and made available to youth audiences worldwide
  

• Podcast on Climate Change Law, ‘Bar at Law’ podcast aimed at Pakistani law students and young professionals, July 2023;
  

• Film “Climate Carnage in Pakistan” shown at Children & Youth Pavilion, COP27, Sharmh el Sheikh, Egypt, November 2022;
  

• Film “Using the Law to Fix Climate Change” shown at fringe meetings COP26, Glasgow November 2021; Presentation and workshops at COP26
  

• Workshops on Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework;
  

• Climate change legislation workshops as a legal expert for the UK government and Malaysian government, Malaysia;
  

• Workshop on COP26, Net Zero, Climate Change and the Energy Transition and what it means for business;|
  

• Assisted drafting of Climate Declaration: COP26 Joint Statement of International Youth Organisations, distributed by young engineers to world leaders at COP26;
  

• Assisted 330 youth delegates from 142 countries with drafting for their MOCK COP Climate Treaty;
  

• Published a plain language Guide to the Paris Agreement in three languages;
  
  

William Wilson is the co-founder and lead writer for the climate blog, events and newsletter at The Borrowed Earth Project - Climate Resources for a Better Future – www.borrowedearthproject.com which currently has over 7,500+ followers in 150+ countries