Cornwall’s libraries now have a new section dedicated to climate change.

The county is among the first in the UK to offer new books and resources containing the most up-to-date thinking and research on the subject.

From the weighty report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the publication that in 2018 highlighted how we have ’12 years to act’ to prevent runaway climate effects) to new bestsellers such as Wilding by Isabella Tree, describing her family’s project to renew the eco-system on their farm in Sussex, there are currently 150 titles in the collection.

A section aimed at children and young adults includes ’The Great Auk’ by Jan Thornhill and ’No one is too small to make a difference’ by Greta Thunberg. In her book, the famous Swedish teenager says: ‘Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‘solve the climate crisis’. But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.’