A CLIMATE change expert from Aberaeron has published a book which a leading academic says he hopes will be ‘a turning of the tide’.

In ‘Great Adaptions’, Dr Morgan Phillips recounts stories of adaptation from the air-conditioned pavements of Doha and the feral camels of Australia, to the ‘cool rooms’ of Paris and the ‘fog catchers’ of Morocco.

The book – which ‘presses home the need for adaptations that are ecologically restorative and socially just’ - has been described as ‘a call to action’.

Prof Rupert Read, of the University of East Anglia, said: “My earnest hope is that this book will be a turning of the tide; and that, with the silence broken, the world can finally begin the painful process of awakening properly to climate reality.

“That includes the reality of how we must now adapt transformatively if we are to have any chance of heading off eco-induced collapses.”

Brought up in Aberaeron, Dr Phillips is co-director of The Glacier Trust, a UK charity that enables climate change adaptation in Nepal.

He is also head of insight at environmental charity Global Action Plan, trustee at National Association for Environmental Education, and associate director at Green Schools Project.

Dr Phillips is the designer of multiple environmental education initiatives, has lectured on the politics of climate change at Brunel University, and led the eco-schools programme for England for three years.

An accomplished public speaker, he has also appeared at many national and international conferences, including COP21 in Paris.