CLIMA TE CHANGE


Make a real difference – to the local landscapes that you love and the global climate crisis.


We have made it our mission to reduce our impact on the environment and take action against climate change. We’re calling it The Climate Project. Did you know that there’s a local way to capture more carbon per square metre than a tropical rainforest? Out on the wilds of our moorlands grows an amazing little plant. When sphagnum moss is growing healthily, this plant powerhouse takes excess carbon out of the atmosphere. In fact, the world’s peat bogs are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store in the world, and sphagnum has even been called the most important plant on earth. Sadly, the Peak District moorland landscape is now the most degraded in Europe (possibly the world) thanks to historic coal smoke pollution from our northern cities.


To combat the degradation, an organisation called Moors for the Future was founded in 2003, and so far they’ve transformed 8,000 acres of peat bogs across the Peak District National Park, South Pennine Moors Special Area of Conservation and West Pennine Moors SSSI. This area was uniquely situated between the industrial heartland of Britain, bordered by Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford and Stoke on Trent. However, like many environmental organisations, much of their vital work depends on donations. It costs £25 to plant one square meter of sphagnum – which is where we come in. We launched The Climate Project, a major new BMC initiative, at the BMC Sheffield Adventure Film Festival in March. You can donate online.


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