Welly2Wivey
The National Emergency Briefing
​And Our Response
We screened the People’s Emergency Briefing on Friday 22nd May, 2026.
This is our response.
In the discussion after the screening, participants in the room broadly spoke about wanting action, a desire to learn more, and a need for peaceful consideration.
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There was also a palpable desire for community and for an effective shared response.
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The climate and biodiversity emergency reaches from local to global levels, and our individual influence is limited, which can be a debilitating realisation.
Our challenge is to find the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other.
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This page is our attempt to help build a community of serenity, courage and wisdom that approaches the future together, heads up and with agency.
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Please bookmark the page or save the tab. Take a little at a time, and come back often. There's a lot here!
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If you want to comment or contribute, email Welly2WiveyCorridor@gmail.com
Take Action
The Courage To Change
Local Action
You're in the right place!
Click on the links below:
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Join the Welly2Wivey WhatsApp group to ask questions, learn & engage
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Join the local groups that suit you
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Using the amazing iNaturalist App, contribute to the official wildlife database
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Use the resource library - there are suggestions here for individual action
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Mount swift boxes on your home
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National Action
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We recommend the National Emergency Briefing's "Take Action" page.
This page guides you through two highly impactful national actions:
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Email your MP to ask them to join the call for a nationally televised Emergency Briefing
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Host a screening yourself
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The more aware our MP and our neighbours are of the emergency, the more likely it is that we will experience positive demographic tipping points and policy shifts.
This Take Action page links to national scale groups and actions as well.
Global Action
It's true, ​​our impact at a global scale is like a grain of sand on a desert dune. However, every dune has its tipping point where enough moving grains become a cascade, and there are things that we can do, many of which will improve the health, wellbeing and contentment of ourselves and those around us. Think global - act local!
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Some high impact actions:
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Eat less meat, and if you do - try to buy high welfare meat from a local producer
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Change your electricity tariff to a renewable one - these are now highly competitive and companies such as Ecotricity, Good Energy and Octopus consistently score highly for customer service.
If you choose Octopus please use the referral code Good-Star-594 to start with £50 credit and to give £50 to the Langford Budville Community Fund
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Support your neighbours by buying locally rather than from online retailers and white van delivery companies that pay less tax than you do
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Here are the best sources of information that we can find, based on these criteria:
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They nurture curiosity and compassion;
They are driven by the data & share their sources;
They aren't selling something;
They aren't politically or corporately affiliated;
We can't read and understand it all, but if we share the bits we do, and discuss the bits we don't, our combined understanding will grow.
We are happy to update the list as more sources are suggested. Please email Welly2Wivey with your ideas or post them on the Welly2Wivey WhatsApp. Do share your thoughts - we will always discuss the ideas, and not the individuals.
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A good place to start is here - a blog written by three of the experts who presented the National Emergency Briefing. It relates their feelings before and after the event and it reminded me of how we are all humans dealing with the same crisis.
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Websites:
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The Conversation - Articles written by academics on subjects wider than you can imagine!
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Carbon Brief - Daily news with an environmental and emissions focus
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Climate Outreach - How to talk about climate with friends, family and others
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Podcasts:
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Outrage & Optimism - totally climate based and revelatory
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Everything Electric - Electric Vehicles & much more​
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The Climate Psychology Alliance - addressing climate and our minds
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Radical (BBC) - Radical thinking about our world. Always thought provoking
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Natural Histories (BBC) - A celebration of nature and our relationships with it
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Nature Table (BBC) - Madcap & marvellous!
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Rewilding the World - Inspiration through stories (scroll down to find the podcast link)
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Newsletters:
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Transition Town Wellington - Inspiring and enticing news and events
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Met Office - Pure British weather and climate updates (fortnightly)
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The Climate Psychology Alliance - a empathic focus on understanding the mental effects of climate change (monthly - sign up at the bottom of the page)
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The Conversation - Imagine (weekly)
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Inkcap - Nature in Britain (weekly)​​
This is where we ask you what you need.
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Could it be a regular meet up, perhaps a climate cafe?
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Would you like another screening, perhaps bringing a friend?
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Maybe a weekly walking group?
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An online discussion group?
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Share your thoughts and ideas by joining the Welly2Wivey WhatsApp group or by emailing Welly2Wivey@gmail.com.
Together we can make things happen.
The National Emergency Briefing
Further Information
You may already have heard about the National Emergency Briefing, when ten of the UK’s leading experts briefed an invited audience of more than 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media in Westminster. The briefing set out the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food systems, national security and the economy, and did so on the public record. Its purpose was to demonstrate what a clear, evidence-led national emergency briefing could look like and why it is needed.
The film is based on the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster (featured by ITV, Channel 4 and The Times) with appearances from Chris Packham, Deborah Meaden, and a range of voices from across the UK. If you are interested in watching the film or hosting a screening go to the NEB Screening Map.
