Story gathering of climate impacts
The climate is changing across South East Scotland. The impacts of climate change are felt differently in different places. This is true at a global scale, but also locally.
Scottish Borders Climate Action Network are working with SNIFFER to collect people's climate change and extreme weather stories across the Borders. Your stories will add to a map to help SNIFFER understand how extreme weather and climate change are affecting our communities.
For the Borders we know that the changing climate means more extreme weather; hotter, drier summers; milder, wetter winters; and sea level rise. But we also know that the impacts of these changes, and the actions we need to take to respond, will vary across our communities.
We also understand that the most vulnerable people and communities are also often the most at risk from the impacts of climate change.
Communities know the places they care about the best. That’s why we want to hear your stories of how extreme weather, and our changing climate, are affecting your communities, and your daily lives and livelihoods. We want to hear about the changes you’re seeing, the challenges you face, and what we can do to make our region more resilient.
These stories will feed into the final risk and opportunity assessment report, which will help to identify the priorities for action to respond, and adapt to the impacts of climate change across the region. Local knowledge will be key. The information will also be shared with local authorities, to help shape more detailed local responses.
SBCAN are working with 5 wonderful Local partner organisations: Sustainable Selkirk, Sea the Change, Burnfoot Community Futures, Outside the Box and Southern Uplands Partnership who will be collecting stories through local events - so look out for climate story cards and chances to participate in your community.
Alternativley you can add your story to the map online. If you have a story to share - you can add it to the map here:
Climate Ready South East Scotland | Commonplace
You can also have a browse of the other stories collected across the South East of Scotland via the link above!