Children's Climate Letters Displayed in Ealing Central Library
Pop-up exhibition on the impact of global environmental damage
The letters on display at the library. Picture: Ealing FoE
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January 13, 2026
A striking pop-up exhibition illustrating how the climate change is affecting children around the world has opened at Ealing Central Library. Letters from the Global South brings together handwritten letters and drawings from school pupils in countries including India, Pakistan and Nigeria, offering a direct account of how rising temperatures, extreme weather and environmental damage are shaping daily life far beyond the UK.
The exhibition is being hosted locally by Ealing Friends of the Earth. A spokesperson for the group said the children’s messages arrive at a critical moment, particularly “given the government’s recent decision to expand aviation – one of the major sources of the emissions that are trashing the environment, and yet benefits only a small minority of the world’s population, eighty percent of whom have never been in a plane.”
Designed by the campaign groups Zero Hour and Muslims Declare, the exhibition aims to build public understanding of the cross-party Climate and Nature Bill currently before Parliament. The proposed legislation seeks to ensure the UK plays its part in keeping global heating within the 1.5°C limit agreed at the Paris climate summit in 2015, while also committing the country to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.
The display has already toured other parts of the borough, including the Dominion Centre in Southall and West Ealing Community Library. Organisers say the letters offer a powerful reminder that the consequences of climate change are already being felt most sharply by communities with the fewest resources to adapt.
The exhibition is open to visitors during normal library hours.
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