We are entering a critical period. The climate is changing fast and limiting temperature rise to 1.5C is looking increasingly impossible. At the same time, we are losing species faster than at any period in the past centuries. It is easy to despair and lose hope; and yet change is still possible. International agreements are critical to success, but it is local action across the globe that will bring about the most rapid change for climate and nature.
Andy Lester from A Rocha UK will summarise where we are at in terms of the climate/nature crisis and what is being done at a grassroots level to address the most extraordinary challenge of our time.
This event was organised by the South Region committee.
[In-person] Join us for a walk up Orrest Head, followed by drinks around the fire.
The talk will highlight small charities working in international development to support the Sustainable Development Goals, in areas such as girl's education, women's economic empowerment, food security and advocacy for safe communities.
Archives and collections assembled as part of colonial projects are troubling presences in our cultural and scientific institutions.
Margaret discusses the distinctive ways in which mariners from England, France, Spain and the Netherlands deployed instruments and determined their daily progress.
Between 2015 - 2019, award winning photographer Marissa Roth made seven transatlantic crossings on the Queen Mary II, resulting in a poetic photographic study of what it means to cross an ocean.
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