Climate change and what to do about it is being tackled by the Workers' Educational Association North East Region in partnership with the Open University in the North, The Co-operative's North East and Cumbria Region and Unison Northern Region.

The partners have arranged a major regional conference on climate change with Mark Lynas, journalist and author of the book 'Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet', and Adrian Hilton, North East Regional Climate Change Co-ordinator, as among the keynote speakers.

The conference is scheduled for Saturday 7 June 2008 at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, 10.00 am - 2.00 pm, and coincides with the start of the Newcastle Green Festival, which is the largest environmental festival in the North.

A principal aim is to identify ways in which people can deal with climate change as workers, consumers, communities and citizens, and to strengthen regional networks of activism. These topics will be the subject of workshop sessions, and the Woodcraft Folk, an environmentally oriented young people's organisation closely linked with the Co-operative Movement, will provide an environment awareness raising 'happening' at the conference.

For further information contact WEA North East regional office on telephone: 0191 212 6100 or email: northeast@wea.org.uk