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On Thursday, September 15, the Climate Advocacy Lab hosted the second training in our North East Training Arc, Elements of a successful campaign strategy. This training focused on the importance of building a strong campaign strategy, understanding the componants that makeup a strategy that builds power, and looked at case studies of campaigns that we can learn from to bring key strategic vision to our organizations and communities.
This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on the Inflation Reduction Act, attitudes toward the country’s major domestic energy sources, and a new paper on the behaviors and perceptions that correlate the most strongly with changes in climate attitudes.
I write to you from my AC-less apartment, with my windows wide open and hoping for a breeze. The west coast is experiencing another record-breaking heat wave and while I’m spared from the worst of it in typically cooler San Francisco, the Bay Area is being scorched, fueling several fast-moving wildfires. At the same time, an unimaginable one-third of Pakistan is currently underwater due to catastrophic flooding, displacing 33 million people. Extreme flooding and record droughts contributed to Jackson, Mississippi, a predominantly-Black city, losing access to safe drinking water. Both examples and realities continue to show how climate change disproportionately impacts people of color and those who have contributed the least to warming. Within this context, it feels timely to refresh ourselves on everything we know about extreme weather and public engagement as we work to engage our communities and audiences on climate action in these extreme times (You can find our last deep dive on this from 2020*).
This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including a new 19-nation survey about climate change, new national polling on climate acton, new polling about the Inflation Reduction Act in Midwest battleground states, and a novel new survey of video gamers’ attitudes about climate change.