Learning Activities
Applying frameworks to move from the personal to the professional in your concept maps
Framework 1: Climate Action Competency Framework
Framework 2: Sustainable Development Goals modified with this representation of ESG roles as one of many professional practice options, with recognition to Antonio Vizcaya Abdo (find him on LinkedIn – this “roles chart” was posted Jan 1, 2024)
Framework 3: Cascading and compounding effects of climate change
Framework 4: Feral Atlas – Tippers: Modes of Infrastructure-Mediated State Change
Framework 5: Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB)
- The goal of CKB is to improve access to climate information by coordinating and orchestrating the efforts of climate knowledge brokers. It works by:
- Developing common tools: so climate data can be searched and shared efficiently, and users can identify quickly which websites and content is most relevant for them (including the Climate Tagger).
- Initiating joint projects: to connect up different websites, test out innovations and generate new thinking on how to best meet user needs.
- Supporting peer learning: providing opportunities for knowledge brokers to meet each other face-to-face, share the challenges they are facing, and compare experience of which approaches work best.
- Building capacity: offering hands-on advice to new initiatives being set up, so they can benefit from the wealth of experience within the group.
- Providing leadership: creating a focal point and a voice for the community as a whole, so the vital role of climate knowledge brokers is understood and championed.
Applying competing paradigms of change into your concept maps
- Climate action competes with other strategic imperatives in organizations – Businesses have unique and significant contributions to make to both mitigation (e.g., emissions reduction and reporting) and adaptation, but many struggle to participate effectively. What are the contributions that both large and small businesses are best poised to make, and how can climate actions support other strategic and operational objectives (e.g., product innovation, shareholder primacy, digital transformation, etc.) Identify and find linkages, and make notes in your concept map.
- Futures narratives – think about “reason(s) to phase out shareholder-based enterprises because of their disembedded profit-seeking practices……is there scope for ownership structures including and beyond private and public-sector ownership, such as neighbourhood associations, consumer cooperatives and worker collectives. Achieving a just and sustainable economy will require redistribution, and an ongoing politics that centres distribution.
Enough! A Modest Political Ecology for an Uncertain Future - Collapse Musings (www.collapsemusings.com) – considerations of personal and professional ecosystems of climate action in the collapse scenario.
Assessment each week can be found under the site’s Assessment Menu: Assessment Week 5