Things you can do about climate change
There are simple and easy things that we can all do to reduce our carbon footprint and make a big difference to the natural world.
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Change what you eat
Buy local produce, eat more plant-based foods and reduce your food miles to shrink your environmental footprint.
Climate friendly gardening
There are plenty of ways you can take action against climate change in your own backyard or local greenspace.
Sir David Attenborough calls for role of nature to be recognised in fight against climate change in new film
The Wildlife Trusts say ambitious nature recovery should be focus at COP26
Change how you travel
Reduce your travel emissions
Change your energy use
Energy used in buildings accounted for around 20% of total UK emissions in 2022. Reducing your household energy use by switching to a renewable energy supplier or purchasing a heat pump will help…
Take on the Big Wild Walk for nature & climate
Help The Wildlife Trusts tackle the nature and climate emergency by challenging yourself to a Big Wild Walk this October half-term! Walk 30km across the week, or set your own challenge.
Climate action needs nature. Nature needs climate action. Neither will succeed if we don’t prepare for a changing world
The Wildlife Trusts’ COP26 report says it’s time to tackle the twin crises at speed
UK's energy security must be tackled alongside the nature and climate crises... if not, we shoot ourselves in the foot
The 2020s are a time of great uncertainty and our actions in this decade will determine if we experience, or avoid, a catastrophic collapse in global biodiversity and runaway climate change.…
Devastating climate impact of using peat in UK horticulture revealed
• Policy failure to stop peat extraction has caused up to 31 million tonnes of CO2 to be released since 1990
• Peat extracted for horticulture in 2020 alone could release up to 880,000…
Scale of nature and climate crises undermined by low ambition farm payments
Today the Government has announced new payments for farmers which raise serious questions as to whether we’ll see any better environmental outcomes now than the era of the much-derided Common…
Heathland and moorland
These wild, open landscapes stretch over large areas and are most often found in uplands. Although slow to awaken in spring, by late summer heathland can be an eye-catching purple haze of heather…