Welcome
The People's Emergency Briefing is a film that presents frank and hard-hitting facts about the climate and nature crisis we are facing. It has been made to help inform communities and to bring them together in conversation. It can be a difficult message to hear, and harder still to know what to do in response.
This website gives our island community a place to come together in facing the problems the film sets out, to understand them in a Guernsey context, and to help shape the action we can take as individuals, as businesses and in policy.
The film was made for the UK and talks about MPs and Westminster. We don't have MPs; we have deputies and the States. The evidence is the same. The decisions are ours.
Screened in Guernsey on Tuesday 29 September 2026 at Beau Séjour, followed by a panel discussion.
Watch the trailer
The full film is only shown in person, so that people can watch it together and talk about it afterwards. If you missed the screening, or want to show it to others, you can host one yourself.
The nine briefings
In November 2025, ten of the UK's leading experts briefed politicians and leaders in Westminster. The film is built around those briefings. Each one has a Guernsey edge.
Nature
Wildlife is collapsing faster than most people realise, and nature is the foundation of everything else in this list. Guernsey's own State of Nature report shows the same decline on our cliffs, commons and shores.
Climate
The world is not on track for the targets it has set, and every fraction of a degree matters. Guernsey has a legal commitment to net zero by 2050 and a 57% cut by 2030; the question is whether we'll meet it.
Tipping points
Some parts of the Earth system don't bend, they break, and once they go they don't come back. Small islands feel the consequences first.
Weather extremes
Storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves are already more frequent and more severe. Our sea walls, drains and reservoirs were built for a different climate.
Food security
Global harvests are becoming less reliable just as the climate that grew them changes. Guernsey imports the overwhelming majority of what it eats; a few days of disruption would empty the shelves.
Health
Heat, air quality, disease and mental strain: the crisis reaches the surgery and the hospital before it reaches the headlines.
National security
Military planners already treat climate breakdown as a threat multiplier. For an island, security means the cable, the boats, the water and the food.
Economics
Acting is cheaper than not acting, and the transition is the biggest investment opportunity of the century. Guernsey's finance sector has a choice about which side of it to be on.
Energy transition
The technology to run a modern economy without fossil fuels exists and is getting cheaper every year. Guernsey's next steps are a second cable to France, more solar and offshore wind.
What can we do in Guernsey?
It's easy to leave a film like this feeling that the problem is too big and the island too small. Neither is true. Here is where to start.
As individuals
- Host a screening with your friends, family or club
- Look at how you travel: bus, bike, walk, share
- Support nature in your choices — in your garden, on the beach, at the ballot box
- Think about where your food comes from, and buy local where you can
- Think about how you use energy at home, and whether solar or a heat pump would work for you
- Give an hour: join a work party, a beach clean or a citizen-science survey
As businesses
- Host a screening for your staff
- Measure your footprint and set a target — the Sustainable Business Initiative will show you how
- Look at your energy use and your buildings first; that's where the money is
- Ask questions of your supply chain
- Make it easier for staff to travel without a car
- Put your CSR budget into local climate and nature projects, not offsets overseas
In government
[Draft — awaiting review]- Deliver the net-zero pathway already agreed, and report progress openly every year
- Bring the offshore wind decision to the States before the end of 2026 and make the case for it in public
- Fund the coastal defence priorities before the sea makes the decision for us
- Give islanders real alternatives to the car: buses, cycle routes, safe pavements
- Back the Strategy for Nature with land, money and planning policy
- Treat food, water and energy resilience as one problem, not three
Where to go next
The film is national. The action is local. Pick a chapter, tell us who you are, and we'll show you the Guernsey organisations, funds and States plans that are already working on it — and how to join in.
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