National Emergency Briefing

The UK faces a growing climate and nature emergency. Yet most people have never been fully briefed on what it means for our lives, our economy and our future.

This new film from the National Emergency Briefing sets out the risks facing the nation - and the credible, positive responses available - in a clear and accessible account designed for screenings in communities across the UK.

A new film from the National Emergency Briefing - a public information initiative to ensure the UK is fully briefed on the climate and nature crisis.

It presents the national implications of climate and nature breakdown - along with credible, positive responses - in a single, accessible account designed for screening in communities across the UK.

National Screening Map

Host a Screening

Taking the Briefing Nationwide

In November 2025, the National Emergency Briefing brought together leading experts to present the latest evidence on the climate and nature crisis to politicians and other influential people in Westminster. That evidence is now on the public record.

The aim of the film is to bring together people in local communities across the UK to hear the evidence and discuss how to respond - together with their MP.

The People’s Emergency Briefing brings together people in local communities across the UK to hear the evidence and discuss how to respond - together with their MP.

Businesses, institutions and local councils are also hosting screenings to help take the briefing to wider audiences across the nation.

The aim of the film is to bring together people in local communities across the UK to hear the evidence and discuss how to respond - together with their MP.

Find a screening near you

Find a screening near you with our interactive UK screening map. Perhaps you could bring someone along who might not otherwise attend? And if there's a gap, perhaps you would consider hosting a screening yourself? Our screening guide has everything you need.

We recommend the film for age 16+ based on expert advice. More info on our Host the Film page, including detailed expert advice on how to talk to children about the climate and nature crisis.

Interactive Map

Find a screening near you with our interactive map. If there's a gap, perhaps you would consider hosting one.

Interactive screening map

Host a screening

Organise a screening in your workplace or in your community and invite your MP to attend. We provide guidance and digital materials including a facilitated discussion guide and customisable posters.

Host a Community Screening

Organise a screening in your constituency and invite your MP to attend. We provide guidance and digital materials including a facilitated discussion guide and designs for leaflets and posters.

For cinema releases, our distribution partner is UK Green Film Network. . Once you have registered your screening with us and added your pin to our national map, we will connect you to the UK Green Film Network who will make sure the film is sent to the cinema in DCP format. If you have any questions about cinema screenings please contact info@ukgreenfilm.net.

Host a Screening in your Organisation

Businesses, institutions and councils are also hosting screenings for staff, members and stakeholders. We provide guidance and digital materials including a facilitated discussion guide and designs for leaflets and posters.

Host a Community Screening

Organise a screening in your constituency and invite your MP to attend. We provide guidance and digital materials including a facilitated discussion guide and designs for leaflets and posters.

Hosting a screening

Host a Screening in your Organisation

Businesses, institutions and councils are also hosting screenings for staff, members and stakeholders.

International Screenings

We welcome groups and organisations hosting screenings outside of the UK. The film focuses on impacts in the UK, but the themes are broadly relevant anywhere. With local help, we can provide subtitles in your language. Please contact us on info@nebriefing.org for details.

We hope that overseas screenings inspire the creation of National Emergency Briefings in other nations. We have produced a step-by-step guide based on our experience.

Subtitles
We are working on translating the subtitles into as many languages as possible, thanks to help from volunteers.

Interested in hosting a screening of the film?

Please fill in the form on our Host the Film page and we'll send more information including how to add your screening to the map. The map now works for international screenings.

Cinemas: please also contact our distributor UK Green Film Network on info@ukgreenfilm.net for film delivery.

Hosting a screening

Post-film Conversation

Each screening is intended to be followed by a structured discussion to allow people to process what they have heard and find ways to engage positively around solutions in their local community. We provide comprehensive guidance in our facilitation guide including how to ensure that conversations remain comprehensive.

By enabling communities and decision-makers to engage with the same evidence together, the screening programme aims to create informed dialogue at local and national level.

Host a Community Screening

Organise a screening in your constituency and invite your MP to attend. We provide guidance and digital materials including a facilitated discussion guide and designs for leaflets and posters.

Why it matters now

Climate and nature breakdown will affect every constituency in the country, from health and food systems to infrastructure, security to economic stability. This crisis is more serious and immediate than many understand. There is strong evidence that bold, urgent action will improve lives and livelihoods, but the window of opportunity is narrowing as we delay.

About the Film

The 50-minute film will combine authoritative scientific content from the Westminster event with reactions from members of the public and some more familiar faces - designed to help audiences process the information on a more human level. It will deliver the frank facts about the threats, but also the enormous benefits if Government leads genuine emergency action.

Many of those attending the event commented that although the facts are alarming, they felt a sense of optimism about confronting the challenge together and seeing a pathway to a better future. View testimonials.

The film was conceived and developed by Ben Carey and Henrik Delehag at climate comms lab Utopia Bureau, who lead on our creative strategy

Help the Briefing Reach Further

If you are connected to organisations, venues or professional networks that could unlock multiple screenings, you can help extend the reach of the film nationally. If you'd like to join a growing number of NEB Connectors helping us secure more screenings, please click below.

Help the Briefing Reach Further

If you are connected to organisations, venues or professional networks that could unlock multiple screenings, you can help extend the reach of the film nationally. If you would like to join a growing number of NEB Connectors helping us secure more screenings, please click below.

Become an NEB Connector

“Those facts were hard to hear, but I also felt thank goodness, we’re being told it as it is.”

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

More testimonials

Interested in hosting a screening of the film?

Please fill in the form on our Host the Film page and we'll send more information including how to add your screening to the map. The map now works for international screenings.

Cinemas: please also contact our distributor UK Green Film Network on info@ukgreenfilm.net for film delivery.

Resources

Everything you need to support NEB and host a screening

Workplace Screening guide

Community Screening Guide

There is clear evidence that urgent action will strengthen our economy, resilience, and quality of life.

The National Emergency Briefing exists to help create a societal tipping point towards the action now required. You can help make it happen.

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