More than 5,000 people from across the UK arrived in Westminster to meet their MPs and demand urgent climate action to protect their communities. This mass lobby is one of the largest to date, with constituents including parents, doctors, and youth campaigners lobbying at least 500 MPs, about 80% of the total.
Despite politicians' beliefs that the public opposes ambitious climate action, research shows high levels of concern about the climate crisis and support for measures to tackle it.
"Rewetting bogs is all about reducing the carbon emissions from the bare peatlands," says Doreen King, emphasizing the importance of restoring natural ecosystems for carbon sequestration.
"Anyone who dismisses climate action in these turbulent times as being expensive, onerous or superfluous cannot count. For if we do not act now, we will subsequently have much higher costs to deal with."