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Climate Fair

Our Aim:

• Encourage & Support Surrey’s Councils to Declare Meaningful

Climate Emergencies

• Scrutinise and Encourage Action
• Inform and Help People take Meaningful Actions on Climate Change

• Part of South East Climate Alliance of 72 groups
• Promoting our concern about environmental impact & the Climate Emergency
• Educating and influencing for Action for the sake of the next generation

• Pushing for Declarations of CE
• Monthly events (Climate Café)
• Sustainable Farming Talk, etc
• Family Week of events in November
• Question Time panel event
• Winnie the Pooh and the Fracking Well
• Food refill centre (coming soon)
• Consultation responses
• Dorking Trees-4-Life promotion
• Our Cockerel logo goes wild
• Joined Surrey Climate Commission
• Full programme for 2020

Our 2019 Activities:

Our Planet Earth

Our thin vulnerable atmosphere

Care about this !

Carbon dioxide concentration

Latest measurement Aug 2019

412 ppm

This change in just 0.07 thousand years.

• -Not Natural--

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Carbon dioxide concentration

Steadily Rising Not even showing methane, SF6, N2O

Sea level rise (over century)

Steadily accelerating Up and somewhat Exponential >1m rise is likely

Temperature rise

Steadily accelerating Up and somewhat Exponential and

• cean acidification

Ice Mass decrease

Has the potential to create run-away feedback loop

286,000,000,000,000 kg per year reduction

Ice Mass change

Antarctic Larson rift

Section of ice bigger than France & UK combined splitting from Antarctic in 2018 and melting

Tipping Points Simply Too risky to bet against !

Earth’s temperature rise

32% reduction in last 20yrs

BUT Excludes: International Aviation (to/from UK) emissions International Shipping (to/from UK) emissions Imported products, goods, services emissions

So actually, UK CO2 emissions have not reduced in last 20 yrs (government’s own figures)

The Challenge is big.

UK CO2 emissions

UK Government

Species Extinction Risk

Human Population: Extinction growth: At current rate, by 2100, over one third of current species could be extinct

Dorking Climate Emergency (DCE) – Climate Fair

Temperature change over last 140 years

Food for thought

Warming Oceans Glacial Retreat Tipping Points Ocean Acidification Extreme Coastal Flooding Global Temperature Rise Extreme Weather Events Lack of Water Supply

Climate Emergency Risks All This

More Forest Fires Regular Major Storms Droughts, Famine, Migration Reducing Snow Cover

Now Some Positive News

Hope for our thin vulnerable atmosphere Care about this !

New Clean Solar Energy is Growing Massively

Exponential growth of solar energy Massive drop in solar PV costs

Exponential growth of all renewable energy Massive growth of wind energy

New Clean Wind Energy is Growing Massively

100x growth expected in next 10 years

Our Electricity is getting Greener

Friday 21st Feb 2020

• nly 20% fossil

fuels for Electricity. Massive Progress. But heating remains primerily fossil fuel based. Plenty of spare low carbon electricity capacity over night (fossil) (fossil)

Exponential fall of costs and so growth of take-up. The POWER of Tipping Points. Rapid growth of energy battery storage. Will mitigate the issue of some renewables being intermittent energy. But batteries have waste issues!

New Clean Energy is Growing Exponentially

Exponential growth forecast of Electric Vehicles Massive growth of low energy LED lighting

New Clean Energy is Growing Exponentially

At these growth rates new clean electricity could totally replace conventional electricity in just 15-20 years!

Plant Trees Such a no-brainer: win-win But not as an alternative to addressing the root causes. See Dorking Trees4Life

REthink

Be mindful of : your consumption, your relationship with ‘things’, and with the Earth.

REcycle REfuse REduce REuse REpair REgift REcover

Close the loop and remake Don’t consume what you don’t need to Reduce consumption

• f energy and

materials Share with others Find new uses for

• ld objects

Fix or upgrade your objects rather than throwing them away Share, and be part of the gift economy Hunt out materials and up-cycle

• The power of RE -

Use, Produce and buy Renewable Energy and materials

REnewable

The RE Hierarchy: ü REfuse ü REduce ü REpair ü REuse ü REcycle ü REgift ü REcover ü REnewable

But so much more Action is needed

Hope for our thin vulnerable atmosphere

There is no Planet B

Can’t have an Emergency without Action

9 Ways to Act

• 1. Speak Truth to Power: Support climate change solutions at council meetings and other open forums with elected
• leaders. Support and vote for elected officials who will act on climate issues. Work to defeat those who will not.
• 2. Talk about Climate Change: Watch the Al Gore film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and the sequel ‘Truth to Power’.

Use the 10 minute primer on the video as a great conversation starter. See: www.climaterealityproject.org

• 3. Write about Climate Issues & Concerns: Write a letter to the editor, opinion piece or post on social media about the

urgency of the climate crisis and climate solutions. Engage with those who do not see the problem.

• 4. Switch your Community to Renewables: Tell community leaders you want clean energy for your village, town or city.
• 5. Make your Business and Employer more Sustainable: Your business can save money while it saves the planet.
• 6. Run for Office: There are thousands of opportunities to run for office; join a clean energy or sustainability company; or

join a campaigning group; and make a difference at local, district, county, regional, national or even global level.

• 7. Walk the Talk at Home: Purchase energy efficient appliances and consider switching to solar PV and/or switching to a

100% renewable electricity provider and Electric Vehicles. Think to reduce waste (energy, water, plastic, packaging, food)

• 8. Eat with the Planet in Mind: Eating a bit less red meat; choosing local foods; limit air miles; and buying organic

products helps reduce your environmental impact.

• 9. Vote with your Money: Invest in or buy from companies with responsible environmental policies. Power of the Purse.

#BEINCONVENIENT

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www.dorking-climate-emergency.net twitter.com/dorkingclimate dorking.climate.emergency@gmail.com www.seclimatealliance.uk