Show Your Stripes Day 2023: World turns blue and red
28 June 2023
Skyscrapers, stadiums and signs in Times Square - these are just some of the places the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s climate stripes appeared last week.
The graphics, which show the progressive heating of our planet, were shared far and wide for Show Your Stripes Day 2023 (Wednesday, 21 June).
People, businesses and organisations from all over the world were encouraged to share the stripes and start conversations about climate change.
In the UK, the stripes were beamed onto the and the .
Across the pond, the University’s partners Climate Central helped to organise the illumination of monuments, buildings and bridges in the USA and Canada.
These included the, Canada, , The in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, and the .
Closer to home, several Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ buildings and , were lit up in the colours of the climate stripes. University buildings including the Minghella Studios were also lit up. Staff at the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ. At Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ FC’s SCL Stadium, a group of schoolchildren from Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and Wokingham joined forces to . They joined a Youth Climate Summit at the Stadium, where they discussed the climate actions they would like to see their school take.
The Youth Climate Summit formed part of Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Climate Festival, a joint initiative delivered by Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Climate Action Network, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Borough Council, REDA and the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ.
Show Your Stripes Day was chosen as Let’s Go Zero’s national school’s day of action. Let’s Go Zero is a national campaign that aims to make schools zero carbon by 2030. Schools up and down the UK as children learnt about how they can help make a difference.
Online and on TV, lots of people and organisations showed their stripes.
American meteorologists from across the States
On social media, stripes-themed , , and were shared.
got involved, too, sharing the stripes with their two million Twitter followers.