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This briefing summarizes three recent studies on how specific emotions—such as fear, guilt, hope, and sadness—influence individual and collective support for climate policies and sustainable behaviors across the United States, Australia, and India.

This research paper evaluates the impact of targeted climate communication campaigns by the Swedish Forest Agency on the adaptation behaviors and perceptions of Swedish forest owners.

This research paper evaluates the impact of climate communication projects conducted by the Swedish Forest Agency on the risk perceptions and adaptation intentions of Swedish forest owners, comparing a participant group (1,493 individuals) with a randomly sampled control group (909 individuals).

This executive summary details a 2017 research project conducted in Kenya and India to determine the most effective methods, phrasing, and visual tools for communicating climate change attribution information to high-level decision makers, the media, and the general public following extreme weather events.

This report documents a meeting of researchers from the Cooperative Research Networks program (CRN3), held in Cancún, Mexico, from November 29 to December 1, 2017. Organized by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) in collaboration with Mexico and CRN3 Principal Investigators, the meeting focused on scientific contributions, science-policy interfaces, open data, and the communication of research results to diverse stakeholders.

This opinion paper by Simon Maxwell, Executive Chair of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKn), proposes a five-point plan to win the public and policy argument on climate change. The author argues that because climate policy creates winners and losers, a strategic approach is necessary to build and sustain support for the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient society.

This document outlines the learning objectives for Session 9 of the Pan American Climate Resilient Health Systems course, titled "Effectively Communicating Climate Change Risks to Health."