A 100-strong choir filled a York church to sing a warning about climate change this weekend.

The Cycle and Sing event saw a team of cyclists take a ride from York Minster to the sculpture of planet Earth on the Sustrans solar system cycle route on Saturday, before heading to All Saints Church in North Street.

The cyclists, from York Bike Belles, were joined by Daniel Longing from Lyons who opened the event with Margo Hanson from the University of Leeds, by accepting and reading out a message in English and French to the world leaders at the climate summit in Paris, which starts today.

Similar events were also taking place in Sheffield, Huddersfield and Leeds ahead of the Paris summit to urge world leaders to commit to a strong climate deal and limit global warming to less than two degrees celcius per year.

The York event was organised by Kate Lock, and featured a specially written song What'ya Gonna Do With Your CO2, performed by the 100-strong choir, arranged by Caroline Lewis, conducted by Charlie Gower-Smith, and accompanied by Bare Brass Band.

Kate said: "I was completely overwhelmed by the end of the event, I was in tears, because I didn't know what I expected it to be. It was even better than how I envisaged it in my head because there was so much genuine enthusiasm and motivation from all the people involved.

"People said it was fantastic and wanted to do it again. the singing is a great way to connect this message and bring people together. It was uplifting experience for me and everyone in the audience. Even though the subject is very serious, as was spelled out by our speakers, no one left in any doubt how serious it is and what needs to happen in and after Paris, but we were left with a feeling there is stuff we can do and time is now and there's a chance to turn this around and get something good coming out of this and have a better future."

The event also featured talks on climate change from Professor John Barrett of the University of Leeds, Katharine Knox of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Councillor Andrew Waller who has the City of York Council’s environment portfolio.

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