Talking to Kris De Meyer, Director of the UCL Climate Action Unit, about fear and agency, where the conventional wisdom gets things wrong, and why stories about actions taken in response to climate change offer the total package when it comes to stimulating meaningful responses from our audiences.

This time, instead of chatting to a special guest, listeners just like you are joining the conversation. It’s a Call-In Show!

Talking to Izzy Howden, Senior Campaign Manager at Make My Money Matter, about the task of making pensions and climate finance engaging for audiences, how working with celebrities can take things to the next level, and how embracing creativity, humour, and satire can give campaigns an edge.

Talking to Sam Narr, Founder and CEO of Kibbo Kift Agency, about the rightwards political shift happening across the UK, Europe, and the United States, where this issue gets tangled up with climate, and what can be learned from the campaigns that brought us Brexit and Trump.

Talking to investigative journalist, Tsira Gvasalia, about the challenges facing climate journalists living under rising authoritarianism, the interconnectedness of climate change and the rest of our lives, and the identity crises facing post-Soviet countries, like Georgia, as they try to establish who they are and what they stand for. 

Talking to Alexei Ovchinnikov, Editor-in-Chief of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group, about climate propaganda, the need to perform due diligence when reporting on the environmental impacts of war, and the surprising solutions stories coming out of Ukraine.

Talking to Ukrainian journalist, Serhii Barbu, about the intersection of climate change and the conflict in Ukraine, how climate-related disinformation is weaponised by the Russian war machine, and how climate doomism fails in the face of more immediate existential threats.

Talking to Belarusian science communicator, Iryna Ponedelnik, about the lack of visibility the Eastern Europe and Caucasus region has on the international stage, the surreality of being labeled an extremist, and the need to live in exile in order to talk about climate change.

Talking to Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa, Executive Director of Climate Cardinals, one of the world’s largest youth-led climate advocacy organisations, who work to make the climate movement more accessible to those who don’t speak English. Amongst other things, Hikaru and I discussed the fact that more than 90% of scientific information about climate change is only available in English, the challenges that this presents in terms of engagement and justice for the global majority, and the power this translation gap has when it comes to fueling climate misinformation.

This time, instead of chatting to a special guest, listeners just like you are joining the conversation. It’s a Call-In Show!

Talking to Iminza Mbwaya, Programme Manager at Sounds Right, a platform for global music artists to help nature fund its own conservation, about the real-world impacts of presenting nature as an independent music artist, what happens to the royalties generated through Sounds Right, and how reconceptualising nature in this way can shift how we think about and engage with it altogether.

Talking to climate communicator, creator, and independent reporter, Jacob Simon, about the trials and tribulations of being a social media influencer, where to draw your line in the sand when it comes to collaborations, and the kinds of content that performs best when it comes to climate and the environment.

Talking to Bogdan Glogovac from Norwegian technology company, Ducky, about the art of turning data into stories, the magic and mechanics of gamification, and what the wisdom of improv has to offer when it comes to tackling challenges like climate change.

Talking to film producer, Adam Stanhope, about the power of film to act as a vehicle for climate literacy, the challenges that large productions can run into as they prepare to launch, and what superstars, like Leonardo DiCaprio, can bring to such projects.

Talking to climate scholar and youth climate activist, Wawa Gatheru, about the largely unsung leadership of African American women in environmental stewardship, the make-up and mechanics of inclusive and participatory movement building, and the need to amplify alternatives to the exclusionary narratives that dominate the climate space and beyond.

Talking to Simone Salvo, Creative Director at Third Act, about the practicalities involved in engaging older adults on the climate, the enormous, largely-untapped structural power that this demographic brings to the table, and the unique ability of legacy to motivate people to take action.

Communicating Climate Change is launching a Call-In Show!

That means, it’s time for you to join the conversation.

Do you have questions related to climate communication? Maybe you’re running into challenges developing your own climate-related output? Or perhaps you’ve seen or heard some related content or news that you thought needed closer examination?

Well, that’s exactly what we’re looking for!

Talking to Thomas Coombes, Founder and Director of narrative change organisation, hope-based communications, about the concept of hope as both active and visionary, how flipping our intuitions inside out and focusing on particular aspects of a story over others can strengthen our output, and how our brains work to trip us up at so many points along the way.

Talking to Grist’s climate fiction manager, Tory Stephens, about the ins and outs of the cli-fi genre, how this medium is key to reaching otherwise inaccessible audiences, and how speculative imaginings can inspire change in the here and now.

Talking to John Marshall, CEO of Potential Energy Coalition, about radical audience centricity, the down sides of using crisis messaging, and how we can more successfully sell the troubled “brand” that is climate change.