From financial to ‘cultural’ divestment
It’s easy to see why the fossil fuel ‘divestment’ campaign has grown so quickly. Hastening the demise of the fossil fuel industry by removing its financial life-support machine has an undeniable and...
View Article“A clean, green science machine”
There is a certain irony that the scientific community has one of the highest carbon footprints. This is mainly down to travel, most notably aviation. A new paper explores some alternatives to the...
View ArticleLove in a changing climate
This guest post is by Robin Webster, previously of Friends of the Earth and Carbon Brief. Robin asks what the role of ‘love’ in climate change campaigning is, and whether we need to get beyond the...
View ArticleBypass the hang-ups with the ‘preparation frame’
With more and more extreme weather events being linked to climate change, the climate debate is shifting from ‘whether’ it is happening to ‘how’ it is happening. This is a guest blog by Max Leighton,...
View ArticleThe Coming Climate Disruptions: Are You Hopeful?
This a guest post by Per Espen Stoknes. A psychologist, economist and entrepreneur, he has cofounded clean-energy companies and spearheads the BI Norwegian Business School’s executive program on green...
View ArticleEco-Angry Birds? When climate change & pop culture collide
In any given 24-hour period, the average urban commuter is subjected to hundreds of corporate advertisements. By contrast, it’s easy to make it through the day without hearing a mention of climate...
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The Pope and partisan polarisation
Photo: Michael Swan, Creative Commons CC BY-ND 2.0 This week, the Head of the Catholic Church did something that legions of green activists routinely struggle to do: focus global media attention on...
View ArticleWhen I say ‘climate change’, you say…?
In this guest post, Dr Endre Tvinnereim of the Uni Research Rokkan Centre and Dr Kjersti Fløttum of the University of Bergen, Norway, shed new light on what people instinctively associate with the...
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The Uncertainty Handbook
Have you ever struggled with the communication of climate change uncertainties? Are you frustrated by climate sceptics using uncertainty – inherent in any area of complex science – as a justification...
View ArticleIs local always better for climate communication?
This guest post is by Michelle McCauley and Jonas Schoenefeld, co-authors of a new paper exploring the link between communication strategies which ‘localise’ climate change and people’s...
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