Panel Discussions
Expert panels discuss a variety of
climate communiation issues
Closing the imagination gap: From “What is” to “What if?”.
A panel discussion about how we see, shape, and share climate futures.
With: Tory Stephens, Grist; Chinelo Onwualu, climate fiction writer; Thomas Coombes, Hope-based communication; and Laura Pereira, Stockholm Resilience Centre.
As the climate crisis accelerates, we’re not just facing a lack of action, we’re facing a failure of imagination. Our ability to build a clean, green, and just future depends on our capacity to envision it. But dominant narratives around climate remain narrow, technical, and often centre around the problems we face rather than the possibilities that solving them can offer. We need stories that move us from what is to what could be.
In this panel, we bring together leading voices working across culture, research, and advocacy to explore how imagination can become a driver of transformation. From speculative fiction to strategic scenario building, knowledge from the global majority to social and narrative change, our panelists will explore the role of imagination in shifting real-world values, behaviours, and systems.
Together, we’ll explore how narratives rooted in justice, possibility, and plural worldviews can close the gap between knowledge and action, between the world we fear and the one we can create. The time to reimagine the future is now!
Climate Communication is dead. Long live climate communication.
A panel discussion about the future of climate communication.
With: Adam Corner, European Climate Foundation, Riddhi Dutta, UNFCCC; Matt Scott, Project Drawdown; and Florencia Lujani, ACT Climate Labs.
Recent events – from elections to climate disasters, and beyond – have underscored the uncomfortable truth that climate communications are failing to resonate. Long-established approaches to engaging audiences on climate are falling short of connecting critical issues to the challenges and priorities that shape people’s lives.
Through the deep domain knowledge and practical experience of our expert panel, we'll discover how innovative, value-driven, and inclusive communication methods can help us meet people where they are, speak to their realities, and offer practical steps to help guide them to action.
The time for confronting shortcomings of business-as-usual climate communication strategies is long overdue. Through this event, we will explore – and respond to – the pressing need for a transformative approach.