Do you know what they know about climate change?
Today saw the launch of a new climate change communication initiative – the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). Staffed by some familiar faces – including ex-BBC Environment Editor Richard...
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Announcing a new collaboration between COIN and Exeter University After a series of workshops around the UK helping communities affected by the flooding of early 2014 to begin facing the reality of...
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What sort of story is climate change? And how should it be told?
By Kate Monson Theatre land’s latest offering to the climate change conversation started at the Royal Court last week. Created by Katie Mitchell, of Ten Billion fame, and written in collaboration with...
View ArticleHow climate change research undermines trust in everyday life
Chloe Lucas, Peat Leith and Aidan Davison Chloe Lucas is a PhD candidate, Peat Leith is a Research Fellow and Aidan Davison is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania We all want to trust and...
View ArticleWill geoengineering make people give up cutting their carbon footprint?
Wealthier people are more susceptible to the trap of saying they won’t take action on emissions when they know engineering the planet’s climate is a possibility. If you thought there was a machine that...
View ArticleDo you know what they know about climate change?
Today saw the launch of a new climate change communication initiative – the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). Staffed by some familiar faces – including ex-BBC Environment Editor Richard...
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Science won’t win over the climate change sceptics — we need stories
You don’t have to be a climate policy expert to be inspired by stories. People respond better to climate change solutions than a bitter argument about its causes. Photograph: incamerastock/Alamy This...
View ArticleThe greatest story never told
What is it that allows us to understand something is true, but act as if it is not? How is it possible to separate what we know from what we care about and what we do? These are some of the questions...
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For the love of…what exactly?
At the London Climate March last month, there was one message that seemed to dominate all others: the ‘For the Love of…’ campaign, which was out in force with banners, heart-shaped placards, and a wide...
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Pictures — it’s a matter of perspective
This meme was circulating on Facebook yesterday courtesy of Greenpeace UK. At last check it was running at 8,007 likes and 7,532 shares. Pitting a wind turbine against a coal-fired power station is a...
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Communicating adaptation in Scotland
Engaging meaningfully with a diverse range of individuals and organisations is one of the biggest challenges surrounding climate change adaptation. To help address this issue, COIN‘s Talking Climate...
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Connecting on Climate: a new communications guide
A new report from the excellent Columbia University ‘Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions’ team, and the campaign group ecoAmerica, pulls together a huge amount of research on how to connect...
View ArticleWhy its good to laugh at climate change
Did you hear the one about the climate policy analyst? Or the polar bear who walked into a bar? Climate change is not generally considered a source of amusement: in terms of comedic material, the...
View ArticleHow social psychology can help us understand – and even alter – people’s...
Based on the European Journal of Social Pscyhology’s August Special Issue on the subject, guest blogger Kelly Fielding from Queensland University looks at the role social psychology can play in...
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Top climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on climate change communication
This is a guest blog by Kirk Englehardt, Director of Research Communication and Marketing for the Georgia Institute of Technology. He blogs about strategic communication & #scicomm on LinkedIn and...
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What sort of story is climate change? And how should it be told?
By Kate Monson Theatre land’s latest offering to the climate change conversation started at the Royal Court last week. Created by Katie Mitchell, of Ten Billion fame, and written in collaboration with...
View ArticleHow climate change research undermines trust in everyday life
Chloe Lucas, Peat Leith and Aidan Davison Chloe Lucas is a PhD candidate, Peat Leith is a Research Fellow and Aidan Davison is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania We all want to trust and...
View ArticleWill geoengineering make people give up cutting their carbon footprint?
Wealthier people are more susceptible to the trap of saying they won’t take action on emissions when they know engineering the planet’s climate is a possibility. If you thought there was a machine that...
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Science won’t win over the climate change sceptics — we need stories
You don’t have to be a climate policy expert to be inspired by stories. People respond better to climate change solutions than a bitter argument about its causes. Photograph: incamerastock/Alamy This...
View ArticleThe social consensus on flooding and climate change
Exactly one year ago, fierce winter weather was causing havoc across the UK. Large parts of the Somerset Levels were submerged, Wales had been battered by coastal storms, residents in the Thames...
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