'It's awakened me': UK climate assembly participants hail a life-changing event

From buying an electric car to starting a secondhand clothes business, attendees talk of the unexpected delights of the first UK citizens' assembly

At the start of 2020, Sue Peachey could never have predicted how her life would change over the next 12 months. She was one of 108 people to take part in the UK's first climate assembly earlier in the year, spending four weekends learning about a range of environmental issues before producing a final report of recommendations.

The first weekend changed me really. I thought, Oh my God, [climate change] is really going to happen,' she said. It made me want to learn and to live my life greener."