Hello and a warm welcome to this new edition of the Voice for Arran.  It feels like a lot has happened since our last issue. Indeed after a summer of record-breaking temperatures and extended drought in much of the UK, some of the recent headlines suggest that we are now living in a different world. And while I have been appreciating the gentle changes in the seasons – the reddening rowan berries and flocking swallows  - as I write, the words of Nepal’s foreign minister keep coming back to me in the aftermath of the floods. “Despite having only 0.1% contribution to global emissions, the people of Nepal have become major victims of climate change.”