[ad_1]
By Steffan Messenger
BBC Wales Environment Correspondent
The area around Blaenau Ffestiniog is alongside Egypt’s Pyramids, India’s Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon as a Unesco World Heritage site
Appropriately enough, it’s drizzling on the day we visit the town billed as Wales’ wettest.
A grey sky blends in with the towering slate mounds which surround Blaenau Ffestiniog, whose quarries once “roofed the world” and helped it earn Unesco World Heritage status.
Situated among mountains in the heart of Snowdonia, the area’s reputation as one of the wettest places in the UK is also considered a badge of honour.
They are now being asked to work together to decide on ways of adapting to the challenges posed by climate change.
In the largest project of its kind so far in Wales, five climate assemblies are being set up across Gwynedd in north-west Wales to involve local communities in the push towards a greener future.
Amy and daughter Anri…
[ad_2]
