Communicating Climate Change

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  The Psychology of Collective Climate Action With Sophia Dasch 30.03.2026 50mnt

  Talking to environmental psychologist, Sophia Dasch, about the psychology of movement building, the three non-negotiables for collective climate action, and the many ways communicators can contribute to putting them in place.
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  Writing Winning Climate Speeches With Rune Kier Nielsen 23.02.2026 49mnt

  Talking to award-winning speechwriter and author, Rune Kier Nielsen about the mechanics of a powerful speech, where climate speeches have – and continue to – fall short, and the unique benefits this format offers for bringing people together and energising collective action.
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  Drilling into Fossil Fuel Industry Influence With Amy Westervelt 19.01.2026 49mnt

  Talking to award-winning investigative climate reporter, Amy Westervelt, about the structural influence the fossil fuel industry has carefully crafted over our information ecosystem; the magic that narrative injects into climate journalism; and the need for more of us to don our tin-foil hats a bit more often, because things are frequently way wackier than we’d maybe like to believe.
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  Introducing “The Black Thread” 13.10.2025 1mnt

  The Black Thread is a new documentary podcast series unravelling Norway’s complex relationship with prosperity, identity, and responsibility in a warming world. Episodes will be dropping weekly over on Drilled Media.
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  Insights From Interventions Within the Global Majority With Diya Deb 02.06.2025 42mnt

  Talking to Diya Deb, executive director at Mindworks, about the ways that mindsets in places like India and Indonesia demand new strategies and emphasis from climate communicators, the fresh ways that denial emerges in such contexts, and the desperate need for more listening in developing interventions and engagement that resonates.
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  Charting a New Course With Rupert Read 12.05.2025 41mnt

  Talking to Rupert Read, co-director of The Climate Majority Project, about how communicators can help audiences meet the realities of our current predicament with active hope and a sense of agency, which actions and interventions need to be taken and how we can support them, and what the concept of thrutopia offers for imagining what it all might look like.
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  Building Climate Accountability From the Ground Up With Ingmar Rentzhog 28.04.2025 43mnt

  Talking to Ingmar Rentzhog, founder and CEO of We Don't Have Time, the world’s largest media platform dedicated to climate action, about the ways that technological infrastructures like media platforms and social networks can support grassroots action, the importance of both sticks and carrots in engaging companies, governments, and other actors on climate issues, and how understanding financial flows can help us propel our much needed societal transformation forward.
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  Visions of Tomorrow’s World With Chinelo Onwualu 14.04.2025 41mnt

  Talking to writer, editor, and strategic communications consultant, Chinelo Onwualu, about the importance of stories in shaping our societies, how fiction can help us make changes in our real lives, and what Western storytellers might learn from those whose cultures have already faced apocalyptic scenarios.
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  Stories of Self-Delusion With Joshua Oppenheimer 31.03.2025 52mnt

  Talking to film director, Joshua Oppenheimer, about his latest movie, The End, why we often find living in lies a more comforting situation than facing reality, and the need to challenge the silence and the self-deception that is all around us when it comes to climate.
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  Crafting Award-Winning Climate Campaigns With Boaz Paldi 17.03.2025 33mnt

  Talking to Boaz Paldi, Chief Creative Officer at the United Nations Development Programme, about the essential components of great climate campaigns, what happens behind the scenes to bring ground breaking activations to life, and how the element of surprise can help us break through the noise.
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  A New Era in Climate Communications With Natalia Vega-Tracy 03.03.2025 34mnt

  Talking to Natalia Vega-Tracy, founder of centralised communications hub, New Zero World, about the power of using creativity for good, the need to fill an imagination gap about the future we’re heading towards, and how the sausage is made when it comes to large multi-stakeholder coalitions.
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  Climate Communication and the Brain With Kris De Meyer 16.12.2024 41mnt

  Talking to Kris De Meyer, Director of the UCL Climate Action Unit, about fear and agency, where the conventional wisdom gets things wrong, and why stories about actions taken in response to climate change offer the total package when it comes to stimulating meaningful responses from our audiences.
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  Communicating Climate Change Call-In Show #2 02.12.2024 30mnt

  This time, instead of chatting to a special guest, listeners just like you are joining the conversation. It’s a Call-In Show!
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  Making Climate-Related Content Everyone Wants to Share With Izzy Howden 18.11.2024 40mnt

  Talking to Izzy Howden, Senior Campaign Manager at Make My Money Matter, about the task of making pensions and climate finance engaging for audiences, how working with celebrities can take things to the next level, and how embracing creativity, humour, and satire can give campaigns an edge.
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  Taking Inspiration From Conservative and Right-Wing Campaigns With Sam Narr 04.11.2024 32mnt

  Talking to Sam Narr, Founder and CEO of Kibbo Kift Agency, about the rightwards political shift happening across the UK, Europe, and the United States, where this issue gets tangled up with climate, and what can be learned from the campaigns that brought us Brexit and Trump.
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  Riding Out Rising Authoritarianism With Tsira Gvasalia 28.10.2024 28mnt

  Talking to investigative journalist, Tsira Gvasalia, about the challenges facing climate journalists living under rising authoritarianism, the interconnectedness of climate change and the rest of our lives, and the identity crises facing post-Soviet countries like Georgia, as they try to establish who they are and what they stand for. 
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  The Environmental Consequences of Conflict With Alexei Ovchinnikov 28.10.2024 28mnt

  Talking to Alexei Ovchinnikov, Editor-in-Chief of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group, about climate propaganda, the need to perform due diligence when reporting on the environmental impacts of war, and the surprising solutions stories coming out of Ukraine.
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  Climate Change and the War in Ukraine With Serhii Barbu 28.10.2024 30mnt

  Talking to Ukrainian journalist, Serhii Barbu, about the intersection of climate change and the conflict in Ukraine, how climate-related disinformation is weaponised by the Russian war machine, and how climate doomism fails in the face of more immediate existential threats.
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  Climate Communications in Exile With Iryna Ponedelnik 28.10.2024 26mnt

  Talking to Belarusian science communicator, Iryna Ponedelnik, about the lack of visibility the Eastern Europe and Caucasus region has on the international stage, the surreality of being labeled an extremist, and the need to live in exile in order to talk about climate change.
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  Translating Climate Information for the Global Majority With Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa 14.10.2024 33mnt

  Talking to Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa, Executive Director of Climate Cardinals, one of the world’s largest youth-led climate advocacy organisations, who work to make the climate movement more accessible to those who don’t speak English. Amongst other things, Hikaru and I discussed the fact that more than 90% of scientific information about climate change is only available in English, the challenges that this presents in terms of engagement and justice for the global majority, and the power this translation gap has when it comes to fueling climate misinformation.