Useful Blogs
There are many climate action related blogs out there, and we thought we might share a couple of the ones we follow and think you might find useful.
Dr. Stewart Cohen, a climate scientist and instructor in the Royal Roads University Climate Action Leadership program, has an active blog that looks at climate change from an ‘experts’ perspective. Whats Going on with Climate Change provides some useful and readable analysis of recent developments, policies and reports.
The Embedding Project describes itself as a “public-benefit research project that helps companies embed social and environmental factors across their operations and decision-making.” It’s a rich blog that focuses particularly on providing thought leadership for businesses on sustainability in the context of climate change. Several of their recent blog posts focus on scenario planning from a very practical perspective. Scenario Planning Made Simple: An 8-step method, as the title suggests, provides a step by step approach to scenario planning to address the intersecting and evolving systemic risks associated with climate change, ecosystem erosion, economic inequity etc. They also have a companion post detailing how to use scenario planning, and the most recent one in that stream that focuses on how to improve scenarios so that they meaningfully take into account sustainable futures.
If you want to dive into other blogs on climate change, there are some ‘best of’ lists that are helpful. This includes Feedspot’s 70 Best Global Warming Blogs and Websites; The Green Market Oracle The Best Blogs and Websites About Climate Changehttps://thegreenmarketoracle.com/2021/05/10/the-best-blogs-and-websites-about-climate-change/; and Environment Go’s 30 Best Blogs about Climate Change.https://environmentgo.com/blogs-about-climate-change/
Climate Communication
Here are a few good resources to help with climate communication
1) The first is Climate Outreach’s Guide “Climate Visuals: Seven principles for visual climate change communication” . You can download the guide from their website – https://climateaccess.org/resource/climate-visuals-seven-principles-visual-climate-change-communication – but also check out the links they provide to other resources that are helpful in the communication area.
Climate Outreach has lots of great reports and guides you may find of use.
2) Climate Visuals.org has https://climatevisuals.org/ a climate visual library you can register for (- read the licensing agreement first. As a student you can register under the educational category but you may want to register under one of the other categories depending on your work etc.) that allows you to download and use images with correct attributions.
3) IPCC’s Principles for effective communication and public engagement on climate change Handbook
4) Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED)- Principles of Climate Change Communication in Brief.