As the UK prepares for COP 26, British politicians are lauding the UK’s success in reducing its carbon footprint. But all is not as it seems. As the new Disaster Trade exhibition reveals, the true global impact of the British economy is hidden from observers, but no less destructive for it.

Focusing on imports from Cambodia, Sri Lanka and the South Asian “brick belt”, this exhibition exemplifies how British trade shapes the disasters that afflict the UK’s trading partners.

Drawing on global quantitative data, personal testimonies and professional photography, it exposes how the UK’s trade in garments, bricks and tea serves to displace emissions and environmental degradation, whilst intensifying the impacts of natural hazards linked to climate change.

The exhibition, which includes both indoor and outdoor elements, will run for a month from 13th October to November 13th 2021 at the St Martin in the Fields rear courtyard and indoor foyer, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ.

And don’t forget, if are motivated by the exhibition to take action, then we are partnering with Traidcraft to encourager the government to take supply chain emissions and overseas environmental degradation seriously. Find out more here:

https://action.traidcraft.org.uk/carbon-cop-out-lets-make-zero-really-mean-zero