Winmarleigh carbon farm chosen as handover location for world’s longest ever attempted relay

In October the Running out of Time relay visited one of Care-Peat’s UK pilot site projects at the Winmarleigh carbon farm. The Running out of Time relay was the longest non-stop relay ever attempted, starting in Glasgow, UK, the site of COP26 and continuing 7,767km all the way to Sharm-el-Sheik in Egypt, the site of COP27. 

The relay aimed to highlight the desperate plight our planet faces in the face of the climate emergency and passed a handful of outstanding climate-positive projects along the route – and the Winmarleigh carbon farm was chosen as one of them, one of only 27 in the UK.

 A team of runners from Lancashire Wildlife Trust (LWT), the carbon farm project lead organisation, ran the relay stage up to the carbon farm, and included LWT CEO Tom Burditt, and trustee John Loder.

 Tom said, “It was really great to be involved in the Running out of Time relay, it felt like being in a little part of history. We’re so pleased that our inspiring Winmarleigh carbon farm, where we are innovating nature-based solutions to the climate crisis, has been chosen as a highlighted project. It’s fantastic to be literally passing the baton on from COP26, where Lancashire Wildlife Trust took part in the Virtual Peatland Pavilion and where a number of members of our Youth Council spoke and took part in discussions.

 “We need to take serious steps to address the climate emergency now. The carbon farm project is looking at the vital role that our peatlands have to play, but we have to focus our energies on all of our habitats; from woodlands to sand dunes. Our climate and nature crises are inextricably linked, we cannot solve one without solving the other.”

 The event saw coverage on the local BBC radio and you can check out some of the coverage on social media at:

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