In photos: Bristol’s climate news – October 2024

Conham Bathing celebrated a swish new bug hotel that appeared riverside, courtesy of the Friends of Avon Valley. The clean water campaigners launched their Thriving Avon Charter this month which advocates for the rights of the River Avon – photo: Conham Bathing

Conham Bathing member Charlotte Sawyer directed the feature-length Rave on for the Avon documentary which the group hopes will be shown nationwide in January. It documents the creative campaigners efforts to motivate policymakers to clean up the Avon, which at their last sampling demonstrated bacterial levels 11 times than the Environment Agency’s benchmark for ‘poor’ – photo: Conham Bathing

Wessex Water has ranked fifth in a ‘biggest sewage spill increase’ list, with a rise of nearly 20,000 to over 40,000 spills in 2023; it came second in terms of spill duration. This AI-produced image predicts what the River Severn – the mouth of which flows into the Bristol channel – will look like in 2050 if pollution continues unchecked – photo: Utility Bidders

The Patchwork Gardeners, a group greening up spaces in and around urban Bedminster, held an Apple Day event which featured pressing, juicing, entertainment and activities – photo: Patchwork Gardening

Their event, which took place at the group’s orchard on Dean Lane, was one of scores that took advantage of the October sunshine to make use of the delicious apples growing locally all over the city – photo: Patchwork Gardening

Luke Jerram’s latest installation, Tipping Point, recreated the experience of a forest fire in order to highlight the fact that 15 per cent of all money held in banks supports deforestation – photo: Luke Jerram

“I’m urging people to find out where their money’s invested and move it to banks like Triodos and Viva, that are trying to help make the world a better place,” the artist told Bristol24/7 – photo: Ursula Billington

Over 50 women working in sustainability met at Clockwise to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the Women in Sustainability Network, which started out in the city 10 years ago – photo: Gaia Visual

Founder Rhian Sherrington was joined at the event by leading figures from organisations and Bristol-based businesses including Triodos, Climate Outreach, Sparks, Bath & North East Somerset council, ZapMap and Green Unlimited – photo: Gaia Visual

Natalie Fee, co-founder of City to Sea – the award-winning plastic pollution campaigning organisation – performed her newly-released single ‘Daughter of Nature’ live for the first time at the event – photo: Jonathan Perugia

Redland Green Club won a national sustainability award designed to encourage tennis clubs to take climate action and therefore future-proof for the sport. Actions the club has taken include LED floodlight installation and sustainable transport use by members – photo: Redland Green Club

Clifton Observatory, which runs regular nature activities for children, is launching a Treeburt trail on November 1. Children will be given a tree passport and stickers, and be invited to visit the trees to find out exciting facts about them – photo: Avon Gorge and Downs Wildlife

The trail is designed to inspire an interest in trees, of which the Avon Gorge boasts several unique species, including five distinct types of whitebeam – a genus in danger of extinction – which grow nowhere else in the world – photo: Avon Gorge and Downs Wildlife