Climate Outreach

📢 Are you supportive of community energy and want to see its full potential realised? @commenergyengland.bsky.social are calling for signatures to an open letter to the Government by 2 March.

Help remove barriers & unlock local power.

👉 Sign here: actionnetwork.org/forms/open-l...

#UpTheEnergy

🗣️🏡 With the Local and Devolved elections just around the corner, join Climate Outreach and Round Our Way to find out how to speak to voters about the climate & nature issues they care about.

🗓️ Tuesday 10 March 🕜 6.30pm - 7.30pm📍Online
👉 Register for the webinar: climateoutreach.org/training-tal...

Council leaders risk losing people’s support if they cosy up to the fossil fuel industry Leaders of Local Government who support fossil fuels and squander opportunities presented by renewables are out of step with what British people want.

🛢️Andrea Jenkyns, Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire and member of Reform UK, is relationship-building with a US oil & gas company to introduce fracking.

Research tells us leaders who cosy up to the fossil fuel industry will lose trust & support.

👉 Read our blog: climateoutreach.org/council-lead...

Toolkit - Energy in the home - Climate Outreach BTC 2025 Communications Toolkit - Talking about... energy in the home. Three do’s and a don’t for communicators

To lower bills in the long-term and support a fairer future, let’s celebrate & adopt clean energy at a faster pace.

👉 How to talk about energy: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/too...

👉 More on the price cap announcement from End Fuel Poverty Coalition: www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/about-fuel-p...

💡Alongside a widespread backing for clean energy, people are more likely to think it will cost them than save them money if we scrap plans to tackle climate change. However, we can’t promise people that a transition towards clean energy in the home will save them money instantly.

💡People across the UK back clean energy. Only 1 in 10 of us don’t like seeing solar panels on roofs. Just 15% of us don’t like seeing wind turbines, and 74% of people that intend to Conservative or Reform either like or don’t mind seeing them.

📢 Today’s price cap announcement from Ofgem means the average energy bill in the UK will fall by £117 between April-June.

Whilst this is positive progress, bills will remain £599 above pre-energy crisis levels.

A faster transition to renewables will play a key role in further driving down bills.

Renewables chart a clear path to cheaper and cleaner energy. How we talk about this transition has the power to shift both the narrative and our overreliance on fossil fuels.

Here’s what we recommend:
𖣘 Show that people support a move towards clean energy, away from fossil fuels.
☀️ Inspire a better future, without trashing the past.
👥 Incorporate the views of people in Scotland

🏗🛢 The Government’s decision on licensing the highly contentious Rosebank oil field is expected soon.

How should we frame the debate - based on how people across the UK think about fossil fuels, and renewables as an alternative?

👉 Check out our blog: climateoutreach.org/rosebank-ris...

With thanks to our partners on the research: @wellcometrust.bsky.social, Cultural Philanthropy Foundation and @moreincommonuk.bsky.social Common, and funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social and the European Climate Foundation.

The feature shows many others raising awareness on climate change in humorous and human ways - like political satirists Jonathan Pie and Cody Dahler, and climate campaigners Dominique Palmer and Leah Thomas.

Channel 4 spoke to Matt Winning, comedian & climate scientist, who is doing a run at Soho Theatre of his show about fatherhood & climate change.

👥 Matt says “Climate change is about people. The way we talk about it, the way it’s communicated, is always so far away from people’s day to day lives.”

💡We know from our latest research that people want to see more climate content in entertainment. We also know Brits are more likely to trust people who are down to earth and know their stuff on climate.

📢 Did you catch us on @channel4news.bsky.social last night in their hot take on using comedy to fight back against climate change? It's not just a funny coincidence...

👉 Watch the feature from 46:45: www.channel4.com/programmes/c...

👉 Check out our research: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/rep...

📌 Hayden Banks, Advocacy Manager at Climate Outreach will present the research and recommendations
📌 @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social, Co-Director @roundourwayuk.bsky.social will cover the importance of storytelling in climate conversation.

We will end with a Q&A session.

Featuring insights from our latest research based on what 7,000+ British people think and feel about the big topics, taken from Britain Talks Climate & Nature.

What you’ll learn:
📌 Climate & nature issues that communities care about such as the local environment, and how to address concerns such as the cost and scale of change.
📌 Narratives that win people over & how to avoid alienating voters, including effective ways to discuss net zero & adaptation.

🗣️🏡 With the May 2026 Local and Devolved elections fast approaching, how do you appeal to voters on their doorstep about the climate and nature issues that matter to them?

🗓️ Tues 10 March 🕜 6.30-7.30pm
👉 Sign up: climateoutreach.org/training-tal...
👥 For Councillors, Candidates and Party Members

👥 Audience insights: a deep dive into the seven British segments by More in Common, to consider how to engage existing and new audiences.

📖 Practical application: the stories and messages that work for different people, based on their lives and aspirations.

What you’ll gain:

🗣 Narrative recommendations: based on what 7,000+ British people really think and feel about climate, nature and other big topics, such as energy, cost, trust & leadership.

📢 New climate & nature storytelling training: last few spaces left!

🗓️ When: Wednesday 25 February | 10am–11.30am 🎟️ Cost: £95 (please note that spaces are limited).

👉 Book your place: climateoutreach.org/workshops-in...

Britain Talks Climate & Nature - Climate Outreach Britain Talks Climate & Nature exists to better understand and engage with people’s priorities, questions and concerns about climate and nature.

👉 Check out our latest insights: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025

👉 Read the analysis via Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

We need to keep talking about the progress that the biggest contributors are making on reducing their emissions - showing that it is not only possible, but happening right now around the world.

People may hold back support for climate leadership if they don't see the biggest emitters playing their part.

💡Our latest research shows that around a third of British people (31%) think that the UK being a leader on climate is a waste of time until countries like China do the same.

📢 New analysis shows that China’s CO2 emissions have been ‘flat or falling’ for over the last 21 months.

How might this affect British people’s perception of the UK’s role as a climate leader, in comparison with the ‘big emitters’ such as China and the US?

3. Climate and nature - Climate Outreach Britain Talks Climate 2025 - People in Britain are concerned about climate change and are taking action to protect the environment.

❗Adaptation solutions exist - and we need to get better at implementing and explaining them, quickly.

👉 How people feel about climate and nature adaptation framing: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/cha...

👉 How to talk about adaptation: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/ada...

💡Our research shows that 75% of us agree with this statement: “the Government needs to take climate change seriously – that means focusing on preparing us for the worst impacts of climate change, such as by building better flood defences and making our homes more suited for the heat”.

💡Our research shows that 75% of us agree with this statement: “the Government needs to take climate change seriously – that means focusing on preparing us for the worst impacts of climate change, such as by building better flood defences and making our homes more suited for the heat”.

🌧️ With the UK on high flood alert and feeling the effects of relentless deluges, what do British people think about our Government’s responsibility in preparing us for such weather extremes?

💡Support for climate adaptation measures goes up once it's explained, and a vision of better is offered.