A BAND and animation studio have partnered with environmental researchers to create a song and film to inspire action on climate change.

'Take Care In Your Stride' was released by the Bookshop Band on Oxford label Upcycled Sounds on Wednesday with accompanying animation put together by Eilidh Nicoll.

It responds to work from Oxford University's environmental change institute researchers, Kate Raworth and Professor Yadvinder Malhi.

The band read Ms Raworth's best-selling book Doughnut Economics before writing the lyrics which explore themes of planetary health, unsustainable economic growth, and undervalued parts of the economy, such as parenting.

It aims to communicate groundbreaking ecosystem science and economics research in an accessible and inspiring way.

Band members Beth Porter and Ben Please said: "We thought it'd be fun to try and write a lullaby, something a parent might sing to their child, with some of those messages in - messages that you might sing to your child to hope they have a happy life.

"If they feel appropriate and right to sing to your baby now, then surely they are self-evident enough for anyone."

The song was premiered live at Tandem Festival near Chipping Norton earlier this year.

It has now been released through all major digital platforms and the video has been put up on Youtube.

The project was funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Professor Malhi said: “Scientists can provide facts and evidence about environmental change, working at a cerebral level.

"The arts on the other hand reach the intuitive level, where you respond emotionally, and this can lead to a complementary understanding.

"This song is a beautiful lullaby that emotionally captures in a very moving way some of the themes scientists try to communicate, about the challenges of living on a finite planet.”

The Bookshop Band started as a partnership between a group of songwriters and their local independent bookshop - Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath.

They have gone on to collaborate with writers including Philip Pullman, Yann Martel, Louis de Bernieres, Joanne Harris and Ben Okri.

They have also worked with Radio 3, The V&A Museum, The Pompidou Centre in Paris and The National Portrait Gallery.

Economist Ms Raworth said: “I was delighted to work with the Bookshop Band on this song.

"We all need to understand the context we live in, we all need to feel that we can be part of that solution and I think the arts are a fantastic way of opening up that conversation.”

For more information see upcycledsounds.eu