Wales Climate Action Day

Asher Storm (left), has his own eco property maintenance business and is a singer song writer (he sang ‘The Fire’ A political state

ment on how some people are failing to look after our planet- at the rally) he is with Harish Jariwala (right), student at University of south Wales

Raising awareness and helping people be more conscious about what their carbon footprint is doing to our environment. Things like this event are really important, it unifies people who are like minded but it also gives a chance for people who aren’t in the know to get informed and to get involved.

Anna Knapik, teacher from Tredegar

As a teacher I would like to be more informed about climate change and to be able to pass that knowledge onto the children at school. We have an eco-club and I would really like to see more kids getting involved. I think it is important for them to understand what’s going on in the world and how they can make positive changes in their lives that effects the bigger picture. After all, it is their future that we are trying to protect.

Alun Evans, St Michaels collage, Llandaff

I’m here today because I’m concerned about the way climate change effects the worlds poor and I feel it’s important that we continue to campaign on this important issue so that the UN take on board that we care about this matter, and that we care about people around the world.

Teresa Mitchell, Penarth

You can just notice that the climate’s changing over the last 20/30 years we’ve had such extreme weather conditions and unexpected at times, and also poorer countries in the world are suffering the most; the Philippines are having typhoons, rising sea levels in the Mauritius, it’s hurting poor people more than our society really, but it’s up to us to make a stand and speak up.

Peter, Eleri and Steven, Cardiff (Father joined by his daughter and son in Law)

Peter: Climate change is the single biggest issue facing us as a species. We have just got to get to grips with getting into renewable sources of energy, and I think it’s tragic that the current government has decided to cut the subsidies that are just getting the new renewable energy companies going, I hope that the assembly here will listen and realise that it’s an important issue for everybody today. We just have to stop using so much fossil fuels and change our direction and move over to renewable energy.

Rob Procter and Ben Procter Abergavenny

It’s not just about climate change it’s about social justice, it’s about creating a better world for our children, and their children; the future generations. It’s nice to be amongst lots of other people who feel the same.

To Ben: Have you had a good time? Ben: Yes!

Sophie Nuber, from Germany has been living in Cardiff for 3 months studying her PhD at Cardiff University

I’m a climate scientist, and I am here today because I have been working on climate and climate change for a long time now, and we’re doing the foundation science for it. The big thing that I want to say is, some people today here have said that they ‘believe in climate change’, and I want to take that back; it’s not a religion, were not believing in climate change. There’s proof for climate change, we have proven that climate change is happening on a very high certainty level it’s really important that we make this step that we know it’s happening and it’s not a belief, if an individual says that they don’t believe in climate change, that’s fine, but it like saying you don’t believe in gravity.

Climate change is happening, it’s not a belief.