Exhibition showing in 4 different towns in North Devon and Torridge, for all the different locations, times and venues please visit the Zerohour website and go to the EVENTS page. Please note times vary in each location.

Dr Alessandra Palange, the exhibition’s curator says:

‘We asked children around the world to tell us how the climate and nature crisis is affecting their everyday lives. Within a few months, we received hundreds of handwritten letters, emails, photos and drawings from communities already experiencing the very real impacts of climate change and environmental destruction. The power of the exhibition comes from letting us hear the voices of people who we would otherwise never know existed. These are ordinary people, just like us, who live in communities that are on the frontlines of climate breakdown.’

Letters from the Global South, has been created by Zero Hour and Muslims Declare, and designed to raise awareness about the crossparty Climate and Nature Bill that returns to Parliament this autumn. The CAN Bill aims to ensure the UK does its bit to keep to the 1.5C climate target agreed at Paris in 2015, as well as halting and reversing UK nature loss by 2030. It has the support of 160 MPs from all the main parties and is backed by over 365 local authorities across the UK, including Devon County Council, North Devon, East Devon, Mid Devon Councils; and Barnstaple, Bideford, and Great Torrington Town Councils.

The Bill also has the support of national organisations like The Women’s Institute and The Co-operative Bank, as well as celebrities including wildlife expert Chris Packham, chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and businesswoman Deborah Meaden from TV’s Dragon’s Den. Over 200 leading UK climate and nature scientists support it.

Cathy Slaughter from Bideford who is looking after the exhibition during its stay in North Devon and Torridge, says:

‘I wanted to bring Letters from the Global South here because it really engages people about this issue. The letters and pictures remind us that the choices we make here in Devon have huge consequences for other people around the world, often those much less privileged than us. As the world gets hotter and hotter, the biggest thing we can do to help is call on our politicians to take meaningful action on the crisis by backing the Climate and Nature Bill in Parliament. We’re encouraging residents to write to their MP after seeing the exhibition and ask them to back the Bill this autumn when it returns to Parliament.’