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Category: Climate Action

  • Clean Air Day (17 June) resources

    Clean Air Day (17 June) resources

    Clean Air Day is the UK’s largest air pollution campaign, engaging thousands of people at hundreds of events, and reaching millions more through the media. This year Clean Air Day is taking place on 17 June 2021.

    Led by Global Action Plan, Clean Air Day brings together communities, businesses, schools and the health sector to:

    • Improve public understanding of air pollution.
    • Build awareness of how air pollution affects our health.
    • Explain the easy actions we can all do to tackle air pollution, helping to protect the environment and our health.

    Events

    Air pollution is our biggest environmental health risk. Poor air quality affects many aspects of our health and well-being. We want to build awareness on the impact of air pollution, understand some of the key issues and talk about what we can all do to tackle them.

    Join Cycle Lewes and Lewes Living Streets in collaboration with the Lewes Climate Hub and Seaford Environmental Alliance for Air Pollution and Health and how to tackle it in Lewes District on 10 June 2021 from 7:30 pm on Zoom.

    View the poster

    Resources

    Online

    What will you do and say this Clean Air Day? Browse through the resources, choose how you will play your part in keeping our air clean and then let us know what you get up to.

    Posters and postcards

  • Introducing a new Climate Action Forum for Lewes District

    Introducing a new Climate Action Forum for Lewes District

    A new Climate Action Forum for Lewes District is being created and we would like to invite all those interested to the first meeting on Zoom on Wednesday, 7 October, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.  The forum is being hosted by 3VA and Sustainable Business Partnership CIC.

    This forum aims to achieve the following:

    • Maximise opportunities for feedback to Lewes District Council on their Climate Change and Sustainability Framework;
    • Support the creation of shared ideas for climate action;
    • Enable community involvement in climate action; and
    • Develop an ongoing group of interested stakeholders.

    We want to provide an opportunity to give voice to, support and develop assets and solutions that lie within our local communities. We recognise that many other organisations and projects are going on already. This forum is created to maximise opportunities for community voice and new collaborative action and we are clear we will not be duplicating what is already there!

    We hope people from all parts of our community including local residents, parish and town councils, voluntary & community organisations, businesses, educational establishments, nature groups, and bodies with an interest in agriculture food, health and transport will all feel included and want to get involved. This includes a specific focus on involving and hearing from local young people.

    To enable the forum to bring together people and projects, a website and social media presence is being developed to act as a focal point for action and to bring together groups, discussion and practical information. There will also be active recruitment of existing ‘offline’ community groups to reach this those less likely to participate in an online platform.

    Come to the first meeting

    If you have any queries and/or would like to receive an invitation to the first meeting and be added to the mailing list of people kept informed and involved, please send an email to info@3va.org.uk with ‘CLIMATE ACTION FORUM‘ as the subject. You will then receive the Zoom link and password and be kept informed from there. We hope to see many of you on Zoom very soon.