National Emergency Briefing

This is reproduction of the contents on the National Emergency Briefing website. Please visit the website for more details. Find a screening of the Briefing using the map below.

Introduction

The climate & nature crisis threatens all aspects of British life from national security to food supply, but solutions exist.

The National Emergency Briefing was commissioned to present the latest evidence, and build an irresistible call for the Government to stage a televised emergency briefing, the essential first step towards the WW2-scale response now required.

“That’s our home, it’s the only one we’ve got. It’s where all of our species has lived and died, everyone, every single human.

It’s where we breathe, it’s where we eat, we laugh, we cry, we love, we hate and as far as we know, together with all the other wonderful life on Earth we are the only known life forms in the universe and we’ve got nowhere else to go.”

Chris Packham – CBE

The Expert Briefings

On 27 November 2025, ten of the UK’s leading experts briefed an invited audience of more than 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media in Westminster.

The briefing set out the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food systems, national security and the economy, and did so on the public record.

• Nature
• Climate
• Tipping points
• Weather extremes
• Food security
• Health
• National security
• Economics
• Energy transition

Its purpose was to demonstrate what a clear, evidence-led national emergency briefing could look like and why it is needed.

The question that follows is how this evidence is communicated to the public and translated into appropriate national action.

Mission Overview

Community screenings of this public information film will take the same evidence heard at Westminister into constituencies across the UK, so that communities and their elected representatives can engage with it together. By encouraging community engagement in local settings – village halls, places of worship, cinemas, workplaces and other community spaces – the People’s Emergency Briefing aims to cut through disinformation, establish a common understanding of the risks, and support constructive civic engagement about what happens next.

The aim is to help communities come together around a shared understanding of the risks, and to consider how they want to engage with their elected representatives and local institutions.

Find a screening near you

Find a screening near you using the interactive UK screening map. Perhaps you could bring someone along who might not otherwise attend? And if there’s a gap, perhaps you would consider hosting a screening yourself? The screening guide has everything you need.

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