Communicating Climate Change
Communicating Climate Change is a podcast dedicated to helping you do exactly that. By digging deep into the best practices and the worst offenses, we'll be looking for ways to help you – and me – improve our abilities to engage, empower, and ultimately, activate audiences on climate-related issues.
We’ll hear from experts producing the latest science, activists working at the front lines of the crisis, artists, NGOs, players from the private sector, and many more, bringing together a wide range of perspectives to help us all be more impactful in the ways that we communicate climate change.
Each and every episode attempts to add to our toolkits, to help us develop the skills and inspiration we’ll need for this epic task. So, if you want to start communicating climate change more effectively, then tune in, subscribe, and tell your friends and colleagues about Communicating Climate Change.
Find out more at communicatingclimatechange.com
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Bringing Climate Change to the Movies With Adam Stanhope
Talking to film producer, Adam Stanhope, about the power of film to act as a vehicle for climate literacy, the challenges that large productions can run into as they prepare to launch, and what super…
00:37:58 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Incorporating Intersectionality With Wawa Gatheru
Talking to climate scholar and youth climate activist, Wawa Gatheru, about the largely unsung leadership of African American women in environmental stewardship, the make-up and mechanics of inclusive…
00:53:18 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Mobilizing Older Adults for Climate Action With Simone Salvo
Talking to Simone Salvo, Creative Director at Third Act, about the practicalities involved in engaging older adults on the climate, the enormous, largely-untapped structural power that this demograph…
00:32:50 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Join the Conversation With the Communicating Climate Change Call-In Show
Communicating Climate Change is launching a Call-In Show! That means, it’s time for you to join the conversation.
00:01:05 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
Hope-Based Communications With Thomas Coombes
Talking to Thomas Coombes, Founder and Director of narrative change organisation, hope-based communications, about the concept of hope as both active and visionary, how flipping our intuitions inside…
00:36:31 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
Shaping the Future Through Climate Fiction With Tory Stephens
Talking to Grist’s climate fiction manager, Tory Stephens, about the ins and outs of the cli-fi genre, how this medium is key to reaching otherwise inaccessible audiences, and how speculative imagini…
00:31:23 |
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Climate Messages That Connect With John Marshall
Talking to John Marshall, CEO of Potential Energy Coalition, about radical audience centricity, the down sides of using crisis messaging, and how we can more successfully sell the troubled “brand” th…
00:28:45 |
Mon 29 Apr 2024
Transforming Newsrooms With Katherine Dunn
Talking to Katherine Dunn from the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a program led by the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute, about what makes an effective climate news story, the obligations …
00:31:51 |
Mon 15 Apr 2024
Navigating Politics and Polarization With Josh Garrett
Talking to Josh Garrett, CEO and co-founder of Redwood Climate Communications, about the state of political polarization on climate issues in the United States, what this poster child of partisanship…
00:31:31 |
Mon 01 Apr 2024
Spotlighting Climate Solutions With Matt Scott
Talking to Project Drawdown's Director of Storytelling and Engagement, Matt Scott, about the power of spotlighting climate solutions and the people working to implement them, how telling such stories…
00:29:15 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Making Meaning With Laura Santamaria
Talking to communication designer, researcher, and semiotician, Dr. Laura Santamaria about how humans – whether as individuals or in communities – construct meaning, how meanings can become appropria…
00:24:49 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
The Psychology of Stories With Markus Appel
Talking to psychologist and professor of media communication, Markus Appel, about the ability of stories to impact people’s attitudes and behaviours, what makes some stories more persuasive than othe…
00:24:02 |
Mon 05 Feb 2024
Playing for the Planet With Matt Leacock
Talking to game designer, Matt Leacock, about the role of play in learning, the ways that games can help people understand and model complexity, and how increased interactivity can deepen audience en…
00:20:29 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Engaging the Persuadables With Florencia Lujani
Talking to Florencia Lujani, Strategy Director at ACT Climate Labs, about new research conducted to better understand a key new audience for climate action called the Persuadables, the ways that info…
00:29:59 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
The Power of Framing With Funmibi Ogunlesi
Talking to Funmibi Ogunlesi, Acting Head of Framing at NEON, about the impact that different framing strategies can have on people’s perception of an issue, why pointing the finger at those responsib…
00:30:01 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
Creating Viral Climate Content With Nick Oldridge
Talking to co-founder of Climate Science Breakthrough, Nick Oldridge, about the rationale behind the project’s work bringing together climate scientists and comedians to create viral climate content,…
00:26:38 |
Mon 27 Nov 2023
From Climate Shocks to Climate Action With Dana R. Fisher
Talking to Dana R. Fisher, about the role of disruptive tactics within the broader climate movement, the relationship between such tactics and the media, and what the future will likely hold when it …
00:30:18 |
Mon 30 Oct 2023
A Rare Take on Climate Communication With Kevin Green
Talking to Kevin Green, who leads Rare's Center for Behavior & the Environment, about Rare’s eight principles for effective and inviting climate communication, the unrivaled ability that humans have …
00:29:15 |
Mon 16 Oct 2023
Shifting Portrayals of Climate-Vulnerable Communities With Josephine Latu-Sanft
Talking to international communications expert, Josephine Latu-Sanft, about the need to challenge portrayals of climate-vulnerable peoples in the media, the ways that words can influence reality, and…
00:26:15 |
Mon 25 Sep 2023
Digging Into Disaster Communication With Dennis John Sumaylo
Talking to disaster communication and community engagement specialist, Dennis John Sumaylo, about the ways that audiences' respective experiences and worldviews affect their communications needs, the…
00:24:00 |
Mon 11 Sep 2023
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