Our project hopes to demonstrate how the comics medium can stimulate climate change action through the creation of a comic digital anthology. 

Ten Years to Save the World was supported by the British Council. The project was a partnership between The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (based in the UK) KOMIKET (based in the Philippines) and Creative Concern (a Manchester-based communications agency specialising in sustainability).

Many thanks to Dr Chris Jones our project advisor at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester, UK.

We commissioned ten internationally-recognised comic and graphic artists – five from the Philippines and five from the UK. They represented the diversity and quality of the medium, had international profiles and were influencers on social media.

The comic art concept 

The Ten Years to Save the World comic anthology remains as an anthology, a collection of 10 comics, of various lengths and forms, to represent each of the ten years left to save the world and to enable us to tackle different issues and different climate actions.

The project was simultaneously launched in the Philippines and the UK as part of the build-up to COP26.

The creative commissions 

10 Years to Save the World was one of at least 14 creative commissions supported by the British Council’s Climate Connection exploring climate change through art, science and digital technology. The commissions were developed by individuals and organisations in the UK working with partners in 28 countries. These partnerships actively involved young people, as well as other groups and communities who are underrepresented in climate change discussions. They brought together artists, technologists, city planners, engineers, thought leaders, activists, scientists and others.

The aspiration for these commissions was to stimulate global conversations about climate change, and inspire transformational change.