Effective communications, engagement and collaboration are key ingredients to a more sustainable and fairer future. Through our climate action programmes, the UK Branch and partners have produced research, campaign toolkits and strategic guidance that could benefit others.

This hub is for practitioners who want to use the latest evidence and tools to deepen understanding and engagement with climate-ocean issues, and strengthen their impact through collaboration.

 

Public engagement

• Top tips on how to engage the public on climate, a report and a guide based on COP26 public engagement activities
• Literature review on public engagement for climate change and video campaign on the most effective ways to engage the public and achieve net zero
• Community voice method, an approach enabling communities to develop a shared appreciation of the ocean

 

Communications and framing

• Climate Visuals, an open image database for evidence-based and impact-focused climate photography
• Principles for climate change communication through imagery, the evidence-based guide for Climate Visuals
• Pathways to climate action for cultural organisations, a guide on how cultural organisations can take part in climate action
• Top 10 Tips and Tricks to Give the Ocean a Voice, an illustrative guide for communicators
• How to Talk About the Ocean so that People Will Listen, a guide for talking about the ocean in ways that can help deepen public understanding of ocean health and build support for solutions
• Changing the ocean conversation, a report on how language can change the trajectory of ocean decline
• Strategies & tools for ocean communications, a series of workshop films on framing strategies to improve ocean communications
• Reframing the Ocean, a framing guide for developing a new ‘sea story’

 

Collaborative action

• Valuing the Ocean, a guide on effective collaboration across the marine conservation sector
• Blue New Deal: Good jobs for coastal communities through healthy seas, a framework setting out a vision for coastal communities that delivers good jobs and economic prosperity

 

Campaigning

• Drop the S campaign framework and video emphasising the interconnected nature of the ocean
• Ocean literacy resources for children and schools, interactive activites to inspire children with the wonders of a healthy ocean and the actions we can take to protect it
• Tackling ocean pollution at the source, a practical guide on tackling ocean pollution and changing the way communities drink water

 

Other projects

 

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Header image: The Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles, where pupils learn to be friendly to the environment and to become responsible citizens. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown