Climate Consortium

气候变化是环境科学的一个领域，具有深远的社会、政治和文化影响。公众如何思考和参与气候变化科学——以及气候变化对每个人生活的影响——是整个社会在气候变化问题上取得进展的一个关键难题。有效的适应政策、国家能效目标以及通过能源技术实现的快速脱碳都依赖于坚定和持续的公众参与。这意味着，除了以气候科学为基础的坚实证据之外，传播气候变化的科学也至关重要。气候联盟项目旨在提供“基础设施”，以确保让公众参与气候变化的努力得到协调、有效，并以来自学术研究和久经考验的从业者专业知识的最新证据为基础。项目团队包括国际公认的公众参与专家、知名的科学传播者以及气候科学、社会科学和传播专业知识的融合。利用我们的网络和经验，我们将确保气候联盟是一个为期一年的包容性项目，提供以证据为基础但易于获取的资源，以促进公众在全国范围内参与气候变化。气候联盟项目的第一阶段涉及对英国已经存在的公众参与气候变化的各种专业知识进行“审计”。与其“重新发明轮子”，我们将寻找更好地协调和从现有倡议中汲取价值的机会，包括建立一个公开的气候变化公众参与专业知识登记册。但是，公众参与经验只是等式的一个方面——气候联盟项目的核心是与公共团体的不同代表（包括难民行动和区域社区中心）密切合作，以确定和建立可能的渠道，有效地超越“通常的嫌疑人”，进行气候变化沟通，而不是与不同的社区和带来新的和独特观点的人进行对话。该项目的一个关键成果将是建立一个网站，该网站收集了专家在公共参与方面达成一致和“共识”的领域（以及存在分歧的领域），并将其以易于使用的工具呈现给公共参与从业者。这是至关重要的，以便在英国开展公众参与气候变化的各种个人和组织能够获得可信赖和可靠的战略和方法指导，以进行有效的沟通和对话。

Climate change is an area of environmental science with far reaching social, political and cultural implications. How members of the public think about and engage with the science of climate change - and the consequences for everyone's lives - is a crucial piece of the puzzle for making progress on climate change as a society. Effective adaptation policies, national targets for energy efficiency, and rapid decarbonisation through energy technologies all depend on committed and sustained public engagement. This means that in addition to a solid evidence base on climate science, the science of communicating climate change is critical too The Climate Consortium project aims to provide the 'infrastructure' to ensure that efforts to engage the public on climate change are coordinated, effective and based on the most up-to-date evidence from academic studies and tried-and-tested practitioner expertise. The project team includes internationally recognised specialists on public engagement, high profile science communicators and a blend of climate science, social science and communications expertise. Using our networks and experience, we will ensure that the Climate Consortium is an inclusive one year programme, producing evidence-based but accessible resources to catalyse public engagement with climate change at a national scale. The first stage of the Climate Consortium project involves an 'audit' of the diverse pool of expertise on public engagement with climate change that already exists in the UK. Rather than 'reinvent the wheel', we will identify opportunities for better coordinating and drawing value from existing initiatives, including producing a publicly available register of climate change public engagement expertise. But public engagement experience is only one side of the equation - central to the Climate Consortium project is working closely with diverse representatives of public groups (including Refugee Action and regional Community Centres) to identify and establish possible channels for effectively reaching beyond the 'usual suspects' with climate change communication, and instead creating a dialogue with diverse communities and who bring new and distinct perspectives. A key output for the project will be a website that captures areas of agreement and 'consensus' between experts on public engagement (and areas of disagreement), and presents them in an easy-to-use tool for public engagement practitioners. This is crucial so that the diverse range of individuals and organisations undertaking public engagement on climate change in the UK can access a trusted and reliable source of guidance on strategies and approaches for effective communication and dialogue.