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The Coat of Hopes is a patchwork pilgrim coat, made, worn and walked by hundreds of people over hundreds of miles from Newhaven on the south coast of England to the gates of COP 26, the UN climate summit, in Glasgow in autumn 2021. The coat was made up of pieces of blanket into which were sewn or otherwise marked, the grief's, remembrances, prayers and hopes of people along its route and beyond. The invitation to put on the coat, is an invitation to be empowered by the warmth of the love that it holds, to carry the weight of responsibility we all share to respond with our whole self to the climate and ecological emergency we face together.