At Climate Action: Bovey & Heathfield, we seek to help provide our community with the knowledge needed to take action on climate change.
Our desire to do so is driven by our concern for the future, for a sustainable, safe, diverse and habitable planet for all forms of life.
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If we build upon the actions that have already been taken, decarbonize the machinery of our civilization in the years and decades ahead, we can preserve our fragile moment.
“Our Fragile Moment” by Dr. Michael E Mann
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At Climate Action: Bovey & Heathfield, we seek to help provide our community with the knowledge needed to take action on climate change. Our desire to do so is driven by our concern for the future, for a sustainable, safe, diverse and habitable planet for all forms of life.
The Climate Action: Bovey & Heathfield group was set up in 2019 (originally known as "Climate Emergency"). But before that, back in 2007, the Bovey Climate Action group was created. You can read about it here. This group of dedicated individuals had the foresight to recognise the problems that have been and continue to evolve from the Climate Crisis.
Its aim is to support and assist the Town Council and the residents of its area towards meeting the challenges of the climate emergency.
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The Councils of Bovey Tracey Town (which includes Heathfield), Teignbridge District and Devon County, along with the Dartmoor National Park have all declared a climate emergency, in line with many other public organisations throughout the country. The UK government has enshrined in law the requirement to meet the Net Zero target by 2050. We explain in these pages what that means.
As a community, we are committed to try to change our world for the better. We have put together some information to provide local residents with some simple steps towards reducing their own carbon footprint, as well as providing a source for reliable fact-based information about the climate emergency.
We believe that raising awareness of the present and future dangers presented by the rapid, continuing changes in the planet’s climate, is critical to abating greenhouse gas emissions which are the prime culprit. We consider it essential to support all measures to protect our environment, our natural world and ourselves. We are in no doubt that there are significant challenges ahead.
We hope that what you find through this website will help and guide you in confronting these challenges.
Our planet has, during its 4.5 billion years, undergone many long periods of change, geological, atmospheric and climatic. The climate in which we (mammals) have evolved has been broadly benign for our existence, but is a tiny "fragile moment" in the span of the planet's age. Our fragile climate can so easily be tipped out of balance, as is currently the serious risk, too fast for evolution to keep pace
Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Trailer | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
United Nations • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Our logo – the Climate Stripes:
The climate stripes were created by Professor Ed Hawkins at the University of Reading in 2018 and are available (with acknowledgement) for free use across the globe. There are no words, no numbers no graphs. Just a series of vertical coloured bars, showing the progressive heating of our planet. Here’s the website where it started.
Each stripe represents the average temperature for a single year, relative to the average temperature over the period as a whole. Shades of blue indicate cooler-than-average years, while red shows years that were hotter than average. The stark band of deep red stripes on the right-hand side show the rapid heating of our planet in recent decades. They show clearly and vividly how global average temperatures have risen over nearly two centuries.
We’ve added the rise in greenhouse gases over the equivalent period – this is shown by the rising top edge of the stripes in our logo.
We think it’s a powerful image.