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April 27, 2019

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

A Handbook for Water Champions: Strengthening Decision-Making and Collaboration for Healthy Watersheds 2019 “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...

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February 21, 2019

Communicating Climate Change and Energy with Different Audiences in Alberta

Communicating Climate Change and Energy with Different Audiences in Alberta 2019 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...

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September 26, 2018

Communicating Climate Change and Energy in Alberta

Communicating Climate Change and Energy in Alberta 2018 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...

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November 1, 2015

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

How to make the case for climate solutions: Ontarians’ views on carbon pricing and cap and trade 2015 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...

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August 7, 2015

Sustainable Consumption and Production Framing: A Research Summary

Sustainable Consumption and Production Framing: A Research Summary 2015 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...

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May 1, 2015

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

What works – and what doesn’t – for engaging people on climate change 2015 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...

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January 1, 2012

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

Leadership & Legacy: Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change 2012 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...

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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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