HIGH-PROFILE environment campaigners Jonathon Porritt and Dr Alice Bell will be coming to Teddington tomorrow morning to discuss how we can solve the climate crisis.

Update: this event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled

The COP26-inspired event will also have a local flavour as Cllr Julia Needen-Watts, Chair of Richmond Council's Environment Committee, is set to be grilled by the public on how the council is playing its part.

Porritt, an environmental campaigner for 50 years and former director of Friends of the Earth, will be giving his expert opinion on the climate emergency as a panellist at the Landmark Arts Centre event tomorrow at 10.30am.

He will be joined by Dr Alice Bell, a former journalist an academic who is currently co-leader of the climate change charity Possible.

The duo recently penned books, Porritt's Hope in Hell and Dr Bell's Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis, and the event has been put on by Richmond Literature Festival which began on Friday and runs until 21 November.

Cllr Julia Needen-Watts will be there as the Council's representative to hear the public's ideas on what Richmond can be doing to help curb the impending crisis. She will also give an update on the plans already in place.

Tickets cost between £6-£15 and the event starts tomorrow at 10.30am, with doors and cafe open at 9.45.

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