Climate Action, Strategy & Empowerment

During Climate Week 2026, we invite you to help shape ELCAN's climate and nature action strategy over the next 5years.

This Climate Action, Strategy & Empowerment event will be a dynamic evening of discussion, exploration and sharing ideas around critical areas we can have an impact as well as considering what we need to do locally to become resilient as the world warms. We need your input to help us focus on the action gaps locally or where we can influence, to reduce our emissions and do our best to build a local county resilient to the coming changes - if that is around food, nature, energy, transport, housing to awareness raising.

As we pass 1.5°C warming, and with the first Net Zero targets less than 5 years away, this is a critical moment for communities across East Lothian.

Two days prior to this event (Tues 29th Sept) we will be hosting a screening of the National Emergency Briefing, which features UK leading experts on climate science, nature, food security, the economy and health. This will help us focus on where the main pressure points lie. For our strategy, we plan to work alongside the East Lothian Council who will be creating their area-wide climate change strategy, and will likely be addressing themes such as Land Use, Transport and Industry.

In June 2024, we ran a Theme Decision Making event where our ELCAN members and the public chose the themes the Climate Hub would focus on, which were: Biodiversity, Food, Energy and Circular economy. From there, we developed themes of work, around hedgerow restoration, working with farmers around knowledge exchange for regenerative farming and biodiversity enhancement, started an Energy Learning Network, as well as a Food Growers Collective and a Biodiversity Collective and a Policy Circle. Your input now will again result in us taking action on the themes you view as important.

If you are interested in getting in feeding in but can’t make this event, contact: tess@eastlothianclimatehub.org

There will be light refreshments and snacks at the event.

Photos will be taken at this event. If you do not want your photo taken, please let us know on the night.

The venue is wheel chair accessible.