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Getting Real in Climate Change Communication With Joanna Benn

Getting Real in Climate Change Communication With Joanna Benn

FromCommunicating Climate Change


Getting Real in Climate Change Communication With Joanna Benn

FromCommunicating Climate Change

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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Dec 12, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This episode features a conversation experienced environmental communications practitioner, Joanna Benn. It was recorded in November 2022. Jo, who works as Director of Strategic Communications Partnerships and Special Projects at the Nature Conservancy, specialises in communicating, campaigning, and writing on international environmental issues. Having started her career as a broadcast journalist, has worked across the globe for think tanks, foundations, and NGOs, as well as the United Nations Environment Programme.Our discussion jumps off from a recent article Jo wrote about her feeling that the environmental movement is somewhat lacking when it comes to imagination, as well as on getting real with audiences and providing vivid visions of the future and what it will entail for us all. Additional links:Jo’s article The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of ImaginationThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett CarnacEarth4All from The Club of Rome
Released:
Dec 12, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Communicating Climate Change is a podcast dedicated to helping you do just that. By digging deep into the best practices, the worst offenses, the pitfalls, and the paragons, we'll be looking for ways to help you – and me – improve our abilities to engage, empower, and ultimately, activate audiences on climate-related issues. We’ll hear from experts producing the latest science, activists working at the front lines of the crisis, artists, NGOs, players from the private sector, and many more, bringing together a wide range of perspectives to help us be more impactful in the ways that we communicate climate change. Each and every episode is an attempt to add to our toolkits. To help us develop the muscles we’ll need for this grand task. So, if you want to start communicating climate change more effectively, then tune in, subscribe, and tell your friends and colleagues about Communicating Climate Change. Find out more at communicatingclimatechange.com