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Accelerate Climate Action with Behavior Change [Climate Week 2025]

Author: Caroly Shumway & Rebecca Edgecumbe (Center for Behavior and Climate); Jo Bjorgaard & Justin Rolfe-Reding (Climate Advocacy Lab)

September 23, 2025

How do we accelerate climate action? This session provides you with the skills to motivate the public to accelerate climate action and reduce climate health risk. The goal of our virtual master class is to boost your outreach skills and accelerate climate action, using evidence-based behavioral science. This trans-disciplinary training includes short talks, exercises, and discussion. Expected outcomes are increased understanding of how to effectively apply behavior change to climate outreach. The presentations focus on the behavior science tools of Social norms, Social identify, Efficacy, Legacy motivation, and Framing for different audiences. View slides here.