Running Out of Time 2023
In June 2023, Britain’s biggest climate action relay passed through 50 cities and towns from Ben Nevis to Big Ben – within easy reach of 20 million people!
Over 2,000km and 30 days, this mass participation event inspired the nation in the race against time to go net zero.
Climate action relay
Carbon Copy teamed up with The World Relay on this incredible journey to showcase amazing people and places along the route that are leading the way in our collective race to net zero.
More than 5,000 people participated, carrying a climate action baton and delivering a message to government; drawing attention to our local and national net zero targets and how we are running out of time to achieve them.
This huge event was covered throughout by ITV, highlighting ambitious local initiatives and their impact, and was shortlisted for Campaign of the Year at the Sustainable Sports Awards.
Carbon Copy also co-hosted two flagship climate action events, in Edinburgh and Cardiff, as part of an outreach programme to bring in even more people.
As we saw, there are so many inspiring projects that people are working on together, up and down the country. Are you involved in something big for climate and nature that’s worth sharing and others can copy?
‘Warming stripes’ relay baton
Hand-by-hand, the climate ‘warming stripes’ relay baton traversed 2,000km to reach Westminster. Each stripe displayed on the baton represents the average temperature in the UK for a particular year, with blue stripes representing cooler than average and red representing warmer than average.
Working in partnership with leading climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins from the University of Reading and using data from the Met Office, Carbon Copy developed climate ‘warming stripes’ for all areas across the UK. The pattern is different for every local area, but the recent dramatic increase in the number of red years is the same.
These local area warming stripes are a powerful graphic that helps people start even bigger conversations about the climate crisis and the need to act where we live. See your climate warming stripes here.