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CALS 502
Seven Ways to Gain Senior Leadership Support for Climate Initiatives
By Joanna Burris for CALS505: Leading Change in the Context of Climate Change August 20, 2023 It is common in an organization for new ideas to come from regular, non-management employees; after all, they are usually the ones doing the most hands-on wor…
Communicating Climate Risk is a Two-Way Street
By Joanna Burris for CALS501: Leading Climate Action in Society, Assignment 5 Communicating climate risk is a two-way street. It is not merely about informing people, but about learning from and understanding them. To do so, and to communicate more eff…
Climate Risk – Time to Hop to It.
Is how we think a barrier to climate action? This post provides some stratgies for the climate change practioner to get decision makers attention regarding climate risk.
The Better News is a Vision of a Very Low Emissions Pathway
As discussed in the Climate Diagnosis and Bad News post, climate impacts are already occurring. Strong climate adaptation measures are needed to minimize harm from locked-in climate change and the impacts of increasing emissions (IPCC, 2022, p. 13). In addition, reducing or mitigating greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible is imperative to avoid worsening …
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Unprecedented Extremes
The word unprecedented caught my attention when reading the Summary of Policy Makers, where it appears twelve times (IPCC, 2021). In Chapter 11, unprecedented is paired with extremes to convey human-induced climate impacts and the breadth and magnitude of the extremes to be expected from the impacts. Unprecedented extremes are “events not experienced in the …
Climate Communication on the Spectrum of Uncertainty Interpretation
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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Climate Change Communication Content Analysis of a CBC Article
A CBC article was selected to analyze its use of climate change communication evidence-based techniques. Communicating about climate change has been a complex enterprise for climate scientists as simply providing increasingly alarming information has not generated sufficient action to mitigate the damage done. What climate change communication research has found is there are evidence-based techniques …
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Critical Reflection on Climate Communication
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 …
Working toward transformative climate action (Instagram Post)
Part 3 of Assignment 4 – Content Remix for CALS502 Alt text: On a noisy gradient background with the colours yellow, orange, pink, blue, black, fascia, and peach, the title: Working toward transformative climate action. The following content slides all have a strip of colours on the left-hand side matching the title page gradient. The …
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