‘Giving us a platform is one thing, but listening to what we are saying and making sure that it adds to the decisions being made at COP is another thing.’ – Elizabeth Wathuti, founder of Green Generation initiative.

COP 26 brings together 191 states in Glasgow in November in what needs to be the farthest reaching and most productive climate talks ever to have taken place. In this article, we examine what threatens to limit the success of the talks.

In this article, we explore what we can learn from previous meetings in Kyoto and Paris to understand how the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate has rallied nations to work together in a positive way to attempt to resolve an intractable environmental problem.

Conscience Collective are excited about our transnational collaboration with She’s Eco, a woman and non-binary led environmental and social justice group. She's Eco strives to be a place where all voices are heard, recognised, acknowledged and respected. 'Activism across borders' is a collaborative piece, where She's Eco and CC discuss how it is possible to create change from opposite sides of the world.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of global climate and social crises. However, a wide range of skills and roles are required to organise each movement or action. This year, Conscience Collective’s Caitlin got involved with organising the UK’s first ever Open Dialogues on Climate Change, a series of virtual events that aim to bridge the gap between climate professionals, organisations, young people, and the government.

Discover four incredible athletes - Ellie Robinson, Naomi Osaka, Bethany Shriever and Yusra Mardini. Find out why they inspire us for their remarkable sporting achievements, their inspirational journeys, who they are and what they are determined to fight for.

Michela Angela Davis described the Black Panther Party as “the intersection of Blackness, fashion, politics, and justice.” This article explores the relation between Black Panther fashion and the politics of black resistance.

‘Read about The Re.Store in the words of Mische Howard, who founded Re. after 15 years as a fashion designer and 20 years practicing yoga’.

‘These events are reminders of the magnitude of the climate and ensuing social crisis. Yet despite the stark evidence of a need to act, the language we use around climate change can bring about a sense of being disempowered and overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge’.

‘Someone else may have inspired you to change the way you live, but that doesn’t mean you have to replicate their actions. Your journey to sustainability is entirely personal to you.’

‘An equal world is an enabled world, and only when all girls achieve their right to education will we have a chance at tackling the major challenges of our time. Countries where women have greater social and political status produce fewer carbon emissions and have smaller climate footprints while nations with higher proportions of women in parliament are more likely to ratify international environmental treaties, create protected land areas, and have stricter climate change policies.’

The three co-founders of CC: Caitlin wearing a dress made by her aunt, Anya and Amirkaur wearing their second-hand, charity shop finds. In part two of the series, they talk about how they are using creativity to make changes and curate their wardrobes.

The two youngest members of CC: Jess wearing a top she made and Sofia re-working a hand-me-down dress from her mum. In this piece they explore changes they are making in deciding what to wear.

It is now more than five years since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arbitrarily detained as a prisoner of the Iranian State. The former journalist was initially convicted in 2016 after being found guilty of “working against the Iranian state,” although her employer, Thomson Reuters Foundation, confirmed that she was there to visit her parents with 22-month-old daughter, Gabriella.

In 2011, less than an hour after Northeast Japan was devastated by the largest earthquake in the country’s history, a tsunami hit the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and triggered a triple reactor meltdown. Now, a decade on from the disaster, more than 1 million tonnes of liquid sits in storage tanks near the reactors. On the 13th April 2021, Japan announced that it will release the contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.

Even before Covid -19, were we becoming desensitized to distressing images of Syrian people being pulled from rubble or children caught in the midst of smoking houses? Images of everyday survival and existence in a warzone have become mundane and regular to a Western audience who increasingly turn away from any real engagement with what this means for those experiencing its consequences.