People's Emergency Briefing

In partnership with Wild about Whitstable, a screening of the People's Emergency Briefing film on the risks to British life and the UK economy from ongoing damage to nature and to our climate. The film features footage from last November’s National Emergency Briefing, which brought together leading UK experts in climate science, food security, health, economics, national security and nature. It presents a clear, measured overview of how the climate and nature crisis is affecting everyday life in Britain, and what the evidence says about risks and responses. The initiative is explicitly non-partisan and is supported by a wide range of organisations. For businesses, these issues are not abstract, affecting supply chains, insurance costs, workforce health, infrastructure reliability, energy prices, food systems and long-term investment stability. The purpose of the Briefing is to support informed democratic discussion and ensure that public institutions, businesses and communities share a common understanding of the scale and urgency of the challenge - and the economic opportunities that flow from responding at pace. There will be a short introduction and a discussion after the screening led by WaW.