Audience: Policymakers

Up your impact this session and learn advanced techniques for educating policymakers, drawn from a comprehensive review of research. This training builds on our "101"-level content (https://www.climateadvocacylab.org/policymaker-contact), and we recommend reviewing that material prior to participating.

In this training, we’ll walk through how to prepare for the unexpected. We’ll talk about how to build grassroots power and shift the narrative in big moments, while being respectful and collaborative.

The Climate Advocacy Lab seeks to provide a comprehensive archive of research and insights for the movement. By keeping our ear to the ground, receiving submissions from you all, and scouring over 69 academic journals, we have added 459 polls, case studies, social science papers and other resources published in 2024 to our Resource Library. To help you make sense of them all, we’ve highlighted some of the most notable trends and individual resources below. Read the whole roundup on our site, with additional sections covering the Inflation Reduction Act, clean energy, public opinion, and perceptions of activism.

Effective storytelling is a critical tool in fighting back and advancing equitable, just solutions for a clean energy future. In this training, we’ll explore how to craft evidence-based stories that build support for clean energy initiatives made possible by federal investments like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Following our training “Powering Change: Telling Effective Stories to Build a Just, Inclusive, & Equitable Clean Energy Future,” this tip sheet offers practical guidance on using storytelling to promote equitable clean energy solutions.

Maximize impact in this session with the Lab’s training on the most effective people-powered ways to influence legislators and other policymakers. We draw from the latest field research and social science (for example, it turns out sending fewer emails can be more powerful than flooding with too many). 

Maximize impact this legislative session with the Lab’s training on the most effective evidence-based ways to influence legislators and other policy makers.