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Scientists Warning Europe (SWE) is a registered charity with a mission to 'protect the future of our planet, our children, and other creatures that share our World'. Scientists Warning Europe became a private company limited by guarantee in 2020 and proceeded to become a registered charity in April 2021. The organisation advocates a science led approach to tackling the climate crisis and identifies six main interrelated stressors: Food, Pollution, Population, Economy, Energy and Nature, based on the framework used by the four Scientists Warnings papers.

Background
The organisation was founded in 2019 as a response to the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (1992 and 2017) and the World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency (2019) and states among its aims that it will represent the tens of thousands of scientists who endorsed these warnings. A number of the authors of the warnings in 2017 and 2019 are on the board and scientific advisory panel of SWE including Prof Phoebe Barnard, Prof Bill Moomaw and Dr Mahmoud Mahmoud and Prof Bill Laurance is a patron. The SWE board and panels include other eminent scientists: Prof Pier Vellinga, Prof Jean Pascal van Ypersele, Prof Chris Rhodes, Prof Chris Rapley, Prof Dave Goulson and Dr Kris De Meyer. The managing director of SWE is Ed Gemmell. In 2021, in the run up to COP26 and on behalf of SWE, board members Prof Phoebe Barnard and Prof Bill Moomaw initiated and acted as lead authors for a fourth Scientists Warning paper ‘World Scientists Warnings into Action’.

Initial Work
One year before COP26, SWE ran a well attended online pre-COP event with over 25 talks from top scientists and experts.

SWE conducted an interview with Dr Jane Goodall in which she stated that the older generations have stolen the future from the youth. The interview has also been released as a podcast.

SWE also hosted a high level discussion on the topic on World Population Day in 2021. The panel included Prof Bill Rees, Prof Phoebe Barnard, Dr Jane O’Sullivan and Dr Chris Tucker.

COP26
In the run up to the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, UK (COP26), Scientists Warning Europe’s board members Prof Phoebe Barnard and Prof Bill Moomaw were the lead authors of the new Scientists Warnings into Action paper which aims to identify all the areas of action required to solve the climate and biodiversity crisis and sets out actions that can be taken by leaders at all levels of society. This paper is currently signed by over 3,000 scientists and is still open for signature by graduate scientists from all over the World.

The Scientists Warning into Action paper was accompanied by a short film “Warnings to Action: Mobilising Humanity” created by Director Jonathan Clay who also directed the David Attenborough and Johan Rockström film Breaking Boundaries.

Both the scientific paper and the film were announced at the SWE press conference on 12 November, in the blue zone of COP26.

While at COP26, SWE also carried out further press conferences interviewing: Prof Tim Jackson author of Post Growth, Dr Victoria Hurth, Dr Helen Harwatt, Dr Paul Behrens author of 'Best of Times Worst of Times', explorer Sunniva Sorby, Daphne Wysham from Methane Action, the director of Seaspiracy Ali Tabrizi, and IPCC author Elvira Poloczanska.

In the Media
In February 2021, SWE issued an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in support of a previous letter by Dr James Hansen, in which SWE urged the UK Prime Minister to adopt a 2030 net zero target. Among the 20 signatories was Winchester University Vice Chancellor Joy Carter.

Prior to the start of COP26 SWE sent another open letter - this time to the UK and Italian Prime Ministers, Boris Johnson and Mario Draghi, urging them to show 'much stronger leadership ahead of it hosting COP26'. The letter was supported by 28 eminent scientists and academics including Dr James Hansen the government's ex science adviser Sir David King, Prof Chris Rapley, Prof Kevin Anderson, Prof Mark Maslin, Prof Jean Pascal van Ypersele and leading Dutch climate scientist Pier Vellinga the first vice chair of the IPCC.

Managing director, Ed Gemmell, has also recently voiced his concern about the planned coal mine in the United Kingdom, which '...would be disastrous for the net zero plans for the UK and send an appalling signal to the rest of the world...'