Tenby’s engagement officer Anne Draper is hosting a community screening of The People’s Emergency Briefing at St Mary's Church House in Tenby this Thursday, August 20 at 7pm.

It’s part of a wider programme of screenings taking place across the UK, designed to help communities understand the climate and nature crisis and discuss what it means locally. The event will include a short facilitated discussion afterwards.

The MP, councillors and the wider community have been invited to attend.

The National Emergency Briefing is a rapidly-growing UK public information initiative working to ensure that both Parliament and the public are clearly and honestly briefed on the climate and nature crisis — and on what an effective national response requires.

In November 2025, more than 1,200 MPs, peers and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media gathered at Westminster Central Hall for a landmark national briefing delivered by leading UK experts. The event opened with broadcaster Chris Packham, who called for clear public understanding of the risks facing the UK.

Experts addressed the implications of climate and nature breakdown for food security, health, national security, infrastructure and the economy, alongside practical evidence on how risks can still be reduced.

That briefing has now been adapted into a new public film, The People's Emergency Briefing, which launched nationally in April 2026.

The film is designed for community screenings across the UK — in village halls, churches, cinemas, libraries, schools and other public venues — followed by structured local discussion.

The aim is simple: to make vital information accessible in every constituency, in a format that is clear, human and watchable.

The wider National Emergency Briefing programme has backing from organisations across conservation, education, faith and civil society, including WWF, the National Trust, CPRE and the Royal Meteorological Society.

Screenings are expected in hundreds of locations, including community venues, cathedrals and healthcare settings.

Chris Packham has said:

“I’d encourage people everywhere to attend a screening of The People’s Emergency Briefing. It creates exactly the kind of honest local conversation we now urgently need, both about what these changes mean where we live, and about what we can do together to address them.”