Besides informing a general audience about the historical and current development of the climate system, findings of climate science are the basis for informed adaptation and mitigation efforts and overall climate action. Given the central role of climate science in climate action, it is worth looking at aspects that are either not or only remotely …
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By Joanna Burris, for CALS501: Leading Climate Action in Society, Assignment 3 Based on the learnings from CALS 502, there are a few competencies that I would like to incorporate into my repertoire as a climate action leader. I believe that my role as a climate communicator has two key parts: 1) to help people see how …
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The course CALS 502 – Communication for Climate Action was an opportunity to explore communication techniques that have the potential to connect with audiences over their emotional reactions to the uncertainties of climate change and to better understand what role climate communication has in motivating engagement in climate action. The feeling of uncertainty is …
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Until I completed my recent climate communications course, I hadn’t really paid much attention to the need for effective approaches
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Climate change is a complex, pervasive and unprecedented challenge facing all living beings and ecosystems (IPCC, 2022). During MACAL 502 Climate Communications course, I have found that communicating about climate change is as challenging as achieving emissions reduction targets and attaining the necessary adaptation of mindsets, society, and infrastructure. At the very least, I have …
Motivating change or leading change, these mean the same do they not? I believed they were until I began unpacking the nature of communicating with the intent of creating change. … Continue readingAre you Motivating or are you Leading?
Climate change is a topic that most of us would like to avoid, and for a good reason. Climate change is scary, depressing, and in some cases kind of dull. Even for someone like me who is genuinely interested in the topic, spending too much time thinking about it can be draining. The easiest thing… Read More »Talking About Climate Change Sucks (Today)
Mary presents to the emergency room accompanied by her husband and adult son. She has advanced cancer for which she is receiving palliative treatment meant to alleviate her discomfort. Her cancer is incurable, and Mary is deteriorating rapidly. She is weak, barely eating, and sleeping almost constantly. Her medications have been escalated to control her […]
Introduction Mainstreaming is one of the core competencies of a climate action leader, as identified in the Climate Adaptation Competency Framework within the domain of “Climate Adaptation Planning & Implementation” (Cox et al., 2021). It is a strategy used to integrate climate action within an organization or across a sector with the intention to include …
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by building on moving and living earth exploring my path to find a community waiting with the freedom to be authentic and be authentically free coming home to ideas being at home in action gratefully honouring how I arrived here being rooted in darkness and light moving forward with a feeling clarity, immersing myself in …
