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April 27, 2019

A Handbook for Water Champions: Strengthening Decision-Making and Collaboration for Healthy Watersheds

“Watershed governance is about ensuring local voices and concerns shape decision-making. It’s about ensuring Indigenous jurisdiction is exercised, in coordination with other jurisdictions,” said Natasha Overduin (Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources & POLIS), lead author of the new handbook. “When it’s done right, watershed governance can help resolve water problems and conflicts, like a scarcity of water for both human...

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February 21, 2019

Communicating Climate Change and Energy with Different Audiences in Alberta

In this report we explore additional language that speaks to the values and identities of different audiences within Alberta. The report includes narratives tailored to each audience – what communicators call “sub-narratives”. The sub-narratives are intended to sit within the larger meta- narrative from Report I, giving the latter greater nuance and speci c meaning.

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September 26, 2018

Communicating Climate Change and Energy in Alberta

This guide is intended to provide practical guidance for climate and energy communicators about what language works well and – crucially – what language might pose an obstacle for communicating with any specific group. This first volume is concerned with finding the language that works best across Albertan society by helping to find common ground across very different positions. This...

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November 1, 2015

How to make the case for climate solutions: Ontarians’ views on carbon pricing and cap and trade

We surveyed 857 Ontarians in September 2015 to explore thoughts about carbon pricing and Emissions Trading (cap and trade) policies and 12 frames/narratives. Each narrative (six on carbon pricing; six on cap and trade) expressed a different ‘idea’, or cognitive frame, developed by George Marshall at the Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN).These ideas covered frames such as “polluter pay”,...

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August 7, 2015

Sustainable Consumption and Production Framing: A Research Summary

How do Canadians and Americans and specifically city sustainability directors view sustainable consumption and production? How do they frame and communicate SCP and what opportunities and barriers exist to talking with each other about this topic? This report attempts to summarize the state of Canadian and U.S. public opinion around sustainable production and consumption issues, as well as the opportunities...

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May 1, 2015

What works – and what doesn’t – for engaging people on climate change

This Special Report from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) is a synthesis of key findings from a cluster of PICS funded Social Mobilization research projects, conducted in British Columbia (BC) during 2010 – 2014. This report explains “what works” and “what doesn’t work” in engaging the public and motivating people to act on climate change solutions. Included in...

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January 1, 2012

Leadership & Legacy: Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change

Communities are seeing and feeling changes in weather first hand. More frequent and severe weather events tax the built environment and human population, storm surges damage infrastructure, and extreme heat and smog days send vulnerable populations to hospital. This Handbook has been tailored for Mayors and other elected officials as you are the ones on the front lines; your communities...

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A Handbook for Water Champions: Strengthening Decision-Making and Collaboration for Healthy Watersheds

Communicating Climate Change and Energy with Different Audiences in Alberta

Communicating Climate Change and Energy in Alberta

How to make the case for climate solutions: Ontarians’ views on carbon pricing and cap and trade

Sustainable Consumption and Production Framing: A Research Summary

What works – and what doesn’t – for engaging people on climate change

Leadership & Legacy: Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change

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