Activists from North Staffs Green Party will join campaigners from around the county at a forum to discuss the climate emergency ahead of the UK playing host to the COP26 summit.
The event organized by Climate Matters Staffordshire will take place at Westport Lake on 21st August and is one of several being held over the next month.
Topics to be discussed at these events include reducing waste and consumption, transport policy and how to make the built environment greener.
Founded in 2019 Climate Matters Staffordshire has patrons including Jonathan Porritt and former Stoke North MP Joan Walley and was set up in the wake of councils across the county declaring climate emergencies.
The organization aims to raise awareness about and work to develop collaborate approaches to addressing the harms caused by climate change.
The extent of the threat to the survival of human and animal life on the planet was shown earlier this month when the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report based on evidence from 14,000 scientific papers.
This found that climate change is both speeding up and becoming more intense with temperatures continuing to rise and heatwaves severe enough to present a risk to public health becoming more common.
Speaking to the BBC Dr Freiderike Otto an Oxford academic and one of the authors of the report said: “Climate change is not a problem of the future, it’s here and now and affecting every region in the world”.
A spokesperson for North Staffs Green Party said: “the most important issue facing humanity at this moment is the growing problems caused by the harm we have done to the only planet we have to call home”.
Going on to say: “we are fully supportive of any initiative that brings people together to work collaboratively on finding practical solutions”.