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These climate advocates don’t care about your carbon footprint. They care about whether you vote.

Grist

Today’s story focuses on a vehicle for systemic change that at first glance may not seem like a space for personal action: policy. should be enacting more ambitious climate policies, but influencing that as an individual may feel out of reach. Most Americans agree that the U.S. “Whether you vote or not is public record. .

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Net Zero: Public taking steps to cut emissions, but fear leadership lacking

Business Green

New YouGov survey reveals over half of Brits think climate change is 'the biggest risk to the Earth's future' and are taking steps to curb emissions. Similarly, 16 per cent said they planned to invest in energy efficiency measures such as better insulation and new consumer goods.

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The public sees net zero as the solution to the UK's energy crunch - but will Liz Truss concur?

Business Green

There is a widespread political, economic, business, and economic consensus that renewables, energy efficiency, and net zero are a key part of the solution to the UK's challenges this winter and beyond - it should be difficult for the new PM to ignore.

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Sorting the trolls from the polls: What does Britain really think about net zero?

Business Green

Polls consistently show significant public concern over the climate crisis and a strong desire for action, but are the right questions being asked? If climate change is - among many, many other struggles - a battle for hearts and minds, then it is one that has in recent years seen momentum finally turning in a greener direction.

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Instagram Ads Can Help Climate Facts Reach the ‘Super Online,’ Report Suggests

DeSmogBlog

A new report by Reality Team, a nonprofit digital marketing group, suggests that social media ads can help reach people who aren’t closely watching topics like climate change or vaccine science and are often targeted by disinformation campaigns. Reaching the ‘Super Online’ From the jump, Reality Team took a pragmatic path.

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Public engagement: The missing link to a net zero world?

Business Green

Net Zero Festival: Author Kim Stanley Robinson and experts from BritainThinks, Hubbub and Lancaster University debate the challenge and opportunity of securing public support for climate action. Call it a fuel crisis and everyone responds with queues at petrol stations, call it a climate crisis and it just doesn't land in the same way.".

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POLL: Energy transition a widely accepted concept; Canadians want governments to work on it, not against it

Clean Energy Canada

In Alberta, opinion reveals more discomfort, but most say a transition to lower carbon energy is necessary and will happen. A strong majority of Canadians believe the transition to energy that produces less impact on climate change is a global conversation, bound to happen, and something necessary whether we like it or not.