Talking In This Climate is a new podcast series that follows six millennials as they go on a shared and often hilarious journey to become better communicators of climate and environmental issues. With no prior experience in podcasting, and recorded through several gruelling months of lock down in Victoria, Australia, the team have managed to pull together a diverse array of episodes on climate communication.
Read MoreOn Friday 9 October, as part of the Daring Cities 2020 Global Forum over 60 young people from around the world engaged in an event #DaringYouth: We Dare You To. One of the outcomes was this #DaringYouth Statement, which shows the collective aspirations participants have of their cities, to inspire urban leaders to take even more daring action on the Climate Emergency.
Read MoreOn 7th May 2020, Point Advisory and the ICLEI Young Writers Network hosted a webinar on positive climate change communication for agency and empowerment. Drawing from communications research, the webinar was designed to empower listeners with new skills, perspectives and actionable ways of effectively and positively communicating climate change, especially in the context of COVID-19.
Read MoreOn the 20th November the ICLEI Young Writers Network hosted a dialogue with students and sustainability professionals on the theme of TRANSITIONS. We explored three themes transport, food and energy, using a Finnish format for structure discussion, called Timeout.
Read MoreThis week our Sustainability & Youth Officer, Timothy Shue, attended a special dialogue on youth and climate hosted by the Embassy of Finland in Canberra, coinciding with the EU Climate Diplomacy Week. The ICLEI Young Writers Network was recognised our work improving sustainability research communication of university students. Greta Thunberg’s fiery speech at the UN Climate Summit on 24 September set the backdrop for the discussion.
Read MoreAs climate change issues evolve rapidly, is our language able to keep up? Are we doing ourselves and the environment a disservice by using language that is so-2007? On the 20th of August on a calm evening at the University of Melbourne more than 20 students gathered for a two-hour discussion on how climate change language has transformed over the past decade.
Read MoreHave you ever had to write an urgent email? As a leader communicating deadlines or an employee telling your boss about an important issue, our ability to write with urgency is an important skill and one that we use more often than we may realise.
Read MoreICLEI launches crowd funding campaign for the “Young Writers Network” a program to mobilise students to transform their research into more accessible formats. With only 12 years left to keep global temperatures below 1.5 degrees of warming, the value of sharing scientific knowledge on climate and sustainability has never been more urgent.
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