Cornwall’s Climate Stories is a series of inspiring documentaries highlighting the impacts of climate change already being felt across Cornwall - and the fantastic businesses, researchers, community groups and individuals working hard to prepare us for the challenges coming our way.
The films focus on specific themes, from housing, transport and fishing to energy, health and farming, looking at how these will be affected in the future, and how they can also be part of the solution.
Our films are available online and we also screen them at community events, festivals, cinemas and schools not just in Cornwall but all around the country too.
Would you like to host your own community screening, using one of our step-by-step screening packs? Or would you like us to deliver a discussion event or workshop in your community or school? If so please get in touch!
If we’re to have a chance of staying within safe climate limits, then all of us will have to be on board. We’re passionate about doing our part to make that happen.
If you have a Cornish climate story you think we should be telling please let us know.
(Many thanks to Fergus Kennedy for use of the fantastic stormy waves footage above).
World Premiere of #ClimateScam? with Q&A at the Cornwall Film Festival - The Poly, Falmouth
As the world faces increasingly devastating climate-related disasters, why do so many people believe that the climate crisis is nothing more than a hoax?
In this eye-opening documentary, Jaz, a young mobile hairdresser and social media-savvy member of the TikTok generation, embarks on a journey to uncover the truth.
In home visits with leading climate scientists, activists and sceptics, she starts to unravel a web of misinformation and conspiracy theories that should worry us all.
With social media algorithms increasingly funnelling us into polarised views of 'reality', Jaz discovers who stands to gain from the conflict and falsehoods that could undermine our ability to confront the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
ALSO COMING SOON....
#ClimateScam? shorts - a series of 35 short films, each focusing on a particular aspect of climate change confusion or conspiracy, unravelled in detail by our expert contributors.
These will be released from early 2025. Watch this space and keep your eye on our social media :-)
Cornwall Sustainability Awards 2023
Runner Up: Carbon Neutral Category
Westcountry Women Awards 2023
Runner Up: Green Business of the Year
Cornwall Climate Care is proud to be a signatory to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, signed by hundreds of thousands of individuals, organisations and scientists, calling for an end to fossil fuel use and a just transition away from coal, oil and gas. Please read about this important initiative and consider signing yourself at fossilfueltreaty.org
We're delighted to have been invited to become one of the early contributors to Open Planet - a hugely important new project that will be building up an ever-expanding global library of world-class footage, images, science and geospatial data to chart the changes to our planet over the next decade.
Open Planet is a partnership between Studio Silverback and Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab.
Each of our 30-minute documentaries takes around six months to complete and costs around £30,000. This includes the full production costs, community outreach and creation of screening packs and educational materials.
We launched this project with a generous bequest from a private individual who cared deeply about nature and the environment.
We have also raised over £40,000 through two very successful Crowdfunder campaigns.
We are also enormously grateful to the following funders for their generous support:
Natural England
National Lottery Community Fund
Aviva Community Fund
Cornwall Council Carbon Neutral Fund
Cornwall Council Climate Fund
Cornwall Community Fund
Carew Pole Charitable Trust
Digital Plymouth iMayflower Fund
Creative Cornwall Calling Fund
LocalGiving's Magic Little Grants and the Postcode Local Trust
Cornwall Catchment Partnership
If you would like to help us to engage with communities and young people on this issue in Cornwall and beyond, please click below and donate. Thank you.