About

The Climate Advocacy Lab equips the US climate movement with the evidence-based insights, skills, and connections needed to build durable power and win equitable solutions.

Since 2015, we have served as critical climate movement infrastructure, making training, research expertise, and an extensive resource library free and accessible to our community of more than 4,000 climate practitioners from 1,500+ organizations across all 50 states; Washington, DC; Puerto Rico; and a number of Tribal nations. 

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The Climate Advocacy Lab was created to ensure the collective impact of the climate movement is greater than the sum of its parts. We are helping create the conditions necessary for movement groups to engage and activate more people, more quickly through their organizing work — and in the sustained way that continues to meaningfully build our power. And it’s working!
 

Every day, thousands of advocates and organizers across the country work to reduce climate pollution and expand clean energy opportunities for healthier, thriving communities and a vibrant, climate-stable world. But, we are living in the most hostile political environment ever to climate action. We don’t have the time or money to waste on tactics that fail, or worse, that backfire. Policy- and decisionmakers won’t take meaningful action until they feel significant pressure from their constituents.

Enter the Climate Advocacy Lab. We use evidence, including social science research, data and analytics, field experiments, case studies, and campaign lessons learned to help climate advocates in every part of the U.S. run smarter public engagement campaigns. We raise the sophistication of the field and the appetite for evidence-informed decisions.

 
How we do it

The Lab helps climate and clean energy advocates, organizers, funders, social scientists, data experts, and others save time, money, and energy by centralizing and transferring knowledge created by the climate community. The Lab provides:


  • The ongoing, free state of the art tools and training our movement needs

  • Access to the rigor of testing and evaluation expertise to ensure our work is achieving intended impacts

  • A central platform that provides free access to the latest movement insights and learnings on what’s working – and what’s not

  • Movement connectivity across a network of 3,000+ climate “practitioners” in all 50 states working to build durable political power for lasting climate action.

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History

Originally incubated at the Skoll Global Threats Fund, the Climate Advocacy Lab is now fiscally-sponsored at the Partnership Project and supported a growing collaborative of multi-year funders including the Skoll Foundation, McKnight Foundation, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, George Gund Foundation, Barr Foundation and others.

If you are an individual or funder interested in supporting the Lab's work, please reach us at info@climateadvocacylab.org.

We welcome feedback on how to make the Lab more useful to climate engagement efforts, so please do not hesitate to get in touch with ideas on how the Lab can better serve this community by sending us a note at info@climateadvocacylab.org.

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