Antioch University New EnglandCenter for Climate Preparedness
and Community Resilience

Communicating About Clean Energy and Climate Change Solutions

March 23rd, 2017

Presenter Slides

Communicating About Clean Energy and Climate Change Solutions

March 23, 2017 12:00 – 1:15 pm

Cara Pike, Executive Director, Climate Access
Moderator, Megan Goold, , U.S. EPA Region 3

Struggling to reach and motivate stakeholders to engage in outreach events? In this webinar viewers will learn the basics of developing an effective climate engagement strategy for their target audiences. This webinar covered:

• A summary of public opinion on clean energy and climate issues;
• Tips on developing values based framing;
• Examples of community engagement approaches
• Common communication challenges and how to overcome these challenges based on translated and applied social science research.

Presenter: CARA PIKE, Executive Director 

Cara Pike is the founder and director of Climate Access. Her work includes creation of the Ecological Roadmap, a values-based approach to building support for environmental protection; Climate Communications Behavior Change – A Guide for Practitioners, and other widely used publications and toolkits. Cara regularly advises government agencies and nonprofit organizations including the Obama Administration, City of Boston, Province of British Columbia, State of Vermont, and others.