Guides
Overview
Encouraging sustainable behaviour
There is now a great deal of information available about how to promote sustainable behaviours – but it can be confusing identifying the evidence that really matters.
Overview
Communicating climate science
The evidence for climate change is so overwhelming that you might expect the facts to speak for themselves. Unfortunately they don't - which means that using the most effective methods for communicating climate science is critical.
Overview
Communicating climate change
What is the best way to create written or spoken materials that really inspire people?
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How is the UK government promoting sustainable behaviour?
'MINDSPACE' is the UK government's framework for influencing sustainable behaviour. But what does it mean, and does it work?
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Values & frames
What are ‘values’ and ‘frames’, and why are they so important for communicating climate change?
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Using scare tactics: does it work?
Is scaring people into caring about climate change a good idea?
Latest blog posts
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Scandinavian scepticism — how to explain Norway?
This guest post from the Oxford Reuters Institute's James Painter asks what accounts for elevated levels of climate change scepticism in Norway?
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A greener shade of blue — communicating climate change on the right
Talking Climate's Adam Corner recently took part in a panel debate organised by the right-of-centre think tank Policy Exchange. The event was titled 'A greener shade of blue - communicating climate change on the right', and was billed as being an opportunity to explore ways of improving the way that political conservatives communicated about climate change.
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Communicating ‘climate compatible development’
In this guest post Jessica Sinclair Taylor, a member of the Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), outlines some of the challenges of communicating climate compatible development to policy makers, and describes how CDKN is developing solutions.
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George Marshall — how to talk to a climate change ‘denier’
Talking Climate’s George Marshall recorded a video that asks what the best way of talking to a climate ‘denier’ is, [...]
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Cultural cognition and climate change
This week we have a guest blog by Professor Dan Kahan of Yale University (and visiting Professor at Harvard University). [...]
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Communicating climate change internationally
Look further afield, and there are lots of examples of climate change communication research beyond the US, Canada and the UK