Our impact
Our insights, capacity-building and advocacy continue to set the standard in climate communications.
Over the last three years, our resources have been downloaded more than 160,000 times.
We’ve shared our insights with more than 30,000 people at events and workshops.
We have 11,000+ registered users on our Climate Visuals image library.
Our website hit 940,000 page views.
What people say about us
Climate Outreach’s vision and approach bring about change that most people would have considered impossible.
Alex Wilson, Grants, Research and Policy Manager at the Samworth Foundation
There was such a buzz in the room. The sheer energy, creativity and positivity around sharing ideas and knowledge left us feeling excited, optimistic and empowered to try new approaches in our own comms.
Helena Davies, Marketing Manager, Cumbria Action for Sustainability
Climate Visuals library has been our go-to place to find impactful images that demonstrate the power of climate solutions.
Yasmin Ahammad, CEO, Impatience Earth
A strong social mandate for climate action
Since its launch in 2020, Britain Talks Climate has become a crucial driver of values-based climate communications and engagement in the UK.
Climate Outreach briefed most major parties on our Britain Talks Climate findings ahead of the 2024 UK general election, and worked with others to deliver core messages for the environmental NGO sector that were in line with these insights.
The original Britain Talks Climate resources have been downloaded over 10,000 times and the web toolkit has 50,000 views.
The Britain Talks Climate toolkit, in particular, has provided focus and direction for climate comms research. I know it guides both cross-sector campaigns and many campaigning organisations’ independent work.
Steve Akehurst, GSCC
Climate Outreach has also conducted further research and shared insights in numerous webinars, panel discussions, and through bespoke training.
We have worked with The Climate Coalition, Pledgeball and many others to help implement our advice, and we have collaborated with organisations in Germany and France to create similar resources.
Action for Climate Empowerment
Climate Outreach played a key role in getting “right to know” text into the ACE Action Plan with our partners – meaning people across the world have a right for their government to educate and inform them about climate change.
COP presidencies at COP26, COP27, COP28 and COP29 have invited us to co-host ACE events, and Climate Outreach is a sought-after panelist at various COP pavilions further promoting public engagement.
Climate Outreach is universally recognised as the go-to organisation in the UK for insights about public attitudes and engagement on climate change.
Alex Evans, Founder and Executive Director, Larger Us
Visual storytelling
Over the last three years, Climate Outreach’s Climate Visuals programme has run two major open photography calls, exhibited photos at COPs and at Sydney Opera House, and developed several specialist collections with partners ranging from TED Countdown to Wikipedia and from Natural England to Clean Air Fund.
Climate Visuals images have been used by organisations such as World Health Organisation and United Nations Environment Programme, as well as many universities, small media organisations and local charities.
Our work with The Guardian newspaper has changed the way millions of people see climate change.
Climate Visuals' research has provoked a conversation that has reached far beyond the editorial considerations of our organisation."
Fiona Shields – Head of Photography, The Guardian
We have helped to shape The Guardian’s editorial guidelines for climate photojournalism, and helped the organisation better understand reader engagement and impact.
Getting everyone talking climate
Our research on messaging resulted in The Climate Coalition’s long-standing national awareness campaign, Show the Love. The campaign has reached millions of people around the UK since it began in 2015.
"Climate Outreach’s insights were some of the clearest and most instructive I’ve ever commissioned."
Beth Tegg – The Climate Coalition
Speaking directly to communities
Our Climate Ambassadors programme has facilitated organisations like the Women’s Institute (WI) to better campaign for the environment, and helped them organise their communities to adapt to increased risks of flooding, heatwaves and drought.
Climate Outreach's thorough guidance has given the WI’s climate ambassadors a solid understanding of climate change and the confidence to talk about it with others."
Emma Holland-Lindsay – Head of Public Affairs, National Federation of Women’s Institutes
Making climate science easy to understand
We’ve worked with the IPCC on a number of public engagement projects, including a Communications Handbook for IPCC authors, a curated gallery of climate images for communicating the Special Report on 1.5C and a collection of public engagement case studies from IPCC WGI (Working Group I) authors around the world.
I wish I could have received such guidance when I was first involved as an IPCC author."
Dr Valérie Masson Delmotte – Co-chair IPCC Working Group I
Bringing clarity to the climate migration conversation
Our work has helped shift opinion on climate-linked migration – a complex, emotive and often polarising issue.
Climate Outreach’s workshops, direct input and online resources have been formative in shaping our positions and work on climate migration, and in particular the perception of climate migrants and their representation in the media."
Rachel Kennerley – International climate campaigner, Friends of the Earth
Among many firsts, we delivered the world’s first online course on climate-linked migration — attracting over 1000 participants from 40 countries. We also run the Climate and Migration Coalition, which aims to ensure a people-centred policy response at national and international levels.
Generating support from fossil fuel-dependent communities for a just transition
Our work in Canada has helped communities facing the impact of the fossil fuel transition to face the future together.
"People really want to make a difference. They want to participate in these sorts of talks and they want to see the province move ahead. That was a neat thing to see, that people actually care."
Ian Wilson – oil sands worker from Alberta, Canada
We have brought together oil sands workers, indigenous peoples, environmentalists, rural Albertans, business leaders, youth and people of faith in meaningful conversation based on shared values.
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