Civic Award from Newham Council helps to promote our climate change education work

We have just received the Green Champion Award at Newham Council’s Civic Awards, held in Stratford’s old town hall.

It was an honour being given the award, and the evening was a glamorous affair.

However, we did not lose our focus on why we were there and why the work to tackle the climate crisis is so urgently needed.

For us, the main benefit to the recognition from Newham Council is the increased awareness it brings to our work!

Below is an extract from the thank you speech: 

The work we do at ClimateYouChange is a group effort. We could not do this without the contributions of a number of individuals, all selflessly giving their time, and without the meaningful engagement of our communities. 

Our work focuses on climate change education, on explaining the urgent nature of tackling this crisis, and teaching one another how we can practically and affordably lower our individual and collective carbon footprints.

Without urgent and radical lifestyle change from everyone in society we could be permanently crossing the 1.5 degrees warming target by 2030.

Breaching this critical threshold would render the climate crisis unstoppable.