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15 January 2025
Climate Barometer’s latest climate impacts data has been featured in BusinessGreen, alongside a new study from Yale University that compares US and UK attitudes to climate change, and which revealed that Brits are more concerned about escalating climate impacts.
15 January 2025
Climate Barometer’s latest data on climate impacts was covered by The Independent, which revealed that majority of the UK public are highly concerned about flooding and think the nation is not making good progress on tackling climate impacts.
In total, 78% felt that the UK was either ‘Not very prepared’ or ‘Not prepared at all’ to deal with climate change impacts, including extreme weather events. Only 13% felt the country was ‘Fairly prepared’ and just 1% said ‘Very prepared’. 8% said they didn’t know.
The story was also covered by a number of daily and regional UK newspapers.
11 December 2024
Our new publication ‘Signal in the Noise’ tracks trends in public opinion from the 2023 Uxbridge by-election to the first 100 days of Labour, set against the evolution of online narratives captured by ACT Climate Labs.
Our online launch event on December 11 (which saw close to 100 people attend) featured speakers from Climate Barometer capturing the past ‘15 months in 15 minutes’ plus discussion and analysis from ACT Climate Labs, and The Local Storytelling Exchange.
8 November 2024
Our co-director Susie Wang wrote a piece for politics.co.uk, arguing that name-calling over concerns about local power projects not only dismisses and shuts down legitimate worries, but can lead to people doubling down on their initial reactions, further cementing divisions.
In her piece, Susie explores what actively involving the community in decision-making processes around renewable energy projects actually means.
12 August 2024
The Independent covered the latest instalment of our climate opinion tracker, which found that there’s been a clear uptick in support for net zero after two years of remaining at roughly the same level.
After consistently hovering between 69% and 71% for two years, in July this rose to nearly three-quarters (74%) of people backing the policy of cutting the country’s greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
The story was also covered by the Evening Standard.
8 August 2024
Our co-director Adam Corner wrote an opinion piece for Business Green, discussing pylons, power lines and the importance of community engagement around energy infrastructure.
He argues that it is up to the government, the energy industry, local authorities and civil society to have the right community engagement infrastructure in place. And that if engaged early enough in the process, community questions and concerns can be understood as ‘conditions of acceptance’, not opposition to be overcome.
26 September 2024
Our co-director Adam chaired an Inter Narratives event alongside speakers Alex Randall, Suzanne Dhaliwal and Russell Warfield to explore what makes for powerful, effective climate communication and why?
The conversation explored lessons learned from campaigns, case studies of climate communication that have really landed, and examples that really haven’t.
2 July 2024
People of colour in the UK are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts. But despite this, there remains a lack of research around diversity experience and engagement with climate change.
This new report in collaboration with Charles Ogunbode and The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) explores how people of colour in the UK experience, perceive and engage with climate change and climate policy, drawing together initial insights from two recent datasets.
Together, the report outlines why we need greater diversity in climate campaigns and better representation in opinion research, with recommendations for campaigners, researchers and funders.
27 November 2024
Business Green covered the latest instalment of our climate opinion tracker, which found that support for local wind and solar projects is hugely underestimated by both MPs and the public in the UK.
MPs and public believe most people would oppose renewables in their local area, but the overwhelming majority say they would support them.
A small number (14%) give what could be described as ‘NIMBY’ responses, by saying they would support such projects only if they are not built in their local area, or would oppose them if they are.