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40 search results for silence

  • Naming, challenging and breaking the climate silence

    This is a guest post by George Marshall for an article by Andrew Revkin originally published in the New York Times blog

    Blog

    Last updated: August 13, 2020

  • Will this latest storm end the silence about climate change?

    Communicating climate change is difficult. Or at least, it is difficult to have productive and positive conversations about how best to respond to climate change.

    Blog

    Last updated: February 5, 2021

  • Climate Silence (and how to break it)

    This report describes the blanket of silence that has descended on the issue of climate change in the UK in the past five years. The report argues the debate urgently needs […]

    Reports & guides

    Last updated: September 19, 2020

  • The currency of transition: why grand visions need trust

    Selling grand visions is hard, particularly if people don’t trust you to deliver. The UK government’s been finding this out over the last few weeks: its ‘levelling up’ agenda has taken a bit of a kicking in the court of public opinion.

    Blog

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

  • What to do about awkward climate conversations

    Our Senior Engagement Advisor Dave Powell has recently been running workshops for grassroots climate campaigners on what to do about those climate conversations that leave us feeling frustrated or dejected. He thought a lot of what he’s been learning would make sense to business folk as well, and shared insights in this piece previously published on BusinessGreen.

    Blog

    Last updated: February 21, 2023

  • How businesses can get tongues wagging on climate change

    Everyone talks about climate change when it’s unbearably hot. But how can businesses keep the conversation going – and what’s in it for them? Our Senior Engagement Advisor Dave Powell shares practical, evidence-based insights in this piece previously published in Business Green.

    Blog

    Last updated: February 21, 2023

  • We’ve come a long way on public engagement – now the hard work really begins

    As 2021 kicks off, Jamie Clarke reflects on his early days as Climate Outreach’s Executive Director eight years ago, when climate silence still needed to be broken. Since then we’ve reached the foothills of public engagement with climate change, but we can also see how steep the remaining challenge is, and what the priorities for overcoming barriers in 2021 need to be.

    Blog

    Last updated: March 3, 2021

  • Research round up

    We now analyse new research in our insights blogs, but we’ve archived here some of our former ‘research round-ups’ in which we picked one theme within the field of climate change communication and analysed three recent academic papers shedding a light on that theme.

    Pages

    Last updated: February 12, 2021

  • Come on, UK weather forecasters – tell it like it is on climate change

    People have a right to know what’s behind their flooding or heatwave. The UK is lagging behind other countries.

    Blog

    Last updated: April 9, 2021

  • Banning straws isn’t enough – we must get serious about climate change

    To head off climate disaster requires difficult changes to our lifestyles, and politicians must not be afraid to say so.

    On October 15, the UK government celebrated the start of its first ever ‘Green GB Week’ – an opportunity to promote clean growth for the nation. This followed hot on the heels of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which set out the steps needed to limit global warming to less than 1.5°C.

    Blog

    Last updated: April 9, 2021

  • Britain, can we — really — talk about this weather we’re having?

    OXFORD, England — For more than six weeks, Britain has been sweating through an unusually intense period of hot, dry weather.

    Blog

    Last updated: April 9, 2021

  • My baby can’t sleep from the heat, why aren’t we talking about climate change?

    Baby it’s getting hot in here. Irritated and covered in sweat, yet again my two year old daughter is struggling to sleep in her cot. I’ve now lost count of the number of nights that the baby thermometer has scowled at me for putting her to bed in officially dangerous temperatures.

    Blog

    Last updated: March 10, 2023