Strategic Climate Change Communication
Published: Coming Soon
Description
Strategic Climate Change Communication is a 14-week online certificate program from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Designed for professionals, advocates, and educators, this course empowers participants to turn science into stories, translate values into vision, and design communication strategies that inspire real-world climate action.
Led by climate communication experts Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz and Dr. Marija Verner, the program offers an expert-led, research-informed curriculum that integrates practical tools with the latest insights from the field. Through live synchronous sessions, you’ll engage in meaningful peer-to-peer exchanges that foster community and expand your professional network. You’ll also build the skills to lead strategic communication efforts across government, nonprofits, business, and education.
Throughout the program, you will develop a strategic communication plan for an organization with which you have a direct relationship. By the end of the program, you will have constructed a campaign plan that the organization can implement.
Prerequisites:
Participants must have an established relationship with an organization for whom they can develop and implement a climate action communication plan.
👉 Learn more about the program on the official website
Program Takeaways
- Analyze diverse audience motivations around climate change.
- Craft compelling, science-based messages that resonate.
- Evaluate which communication strategies achieve your goals.
- Apply research insights to design effective campaigns.
- Synthesize your learning into a practical capstone project ready for real-world implementation.
Meet the Instructors
Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., is the founder and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the JoshAni – TomKat Professor of Climate Communication at the Yale School of the Environment. He is an expert on public climate change and environmental beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior, and the psychological, cultural, and political factors that shape them. He conducts research at the global, national, and local scales, including many surveys of the American public. He has published more than 200 scientific articles, chapters, and reports and served as a contributing author, panel member, advisor or consultant to diverse organizations including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6 Report), the National Academy of Sciences (America’s Climate Choices Report), the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the Harvard Kennedy School, the United Nations Development Program, the Gallup World Poll, and the World Economic Forum, among others. He is a recipient of the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education, the Mitofsky Innovator Award from the American Association of Public Opinion Research, and the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from Climate One. He is also the host of Climate Connections, a radio program broadcast each day on more than 700 stations and frequencies nationwide.
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Marija Verner, Ph.D., is a Digital Education Manager and Research Specialist at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. She is an expert on climate change attitudes, gender differences in environmental perceptions, and international public opinion research. Her research examining how political beliefs, vulnerability, and demographic factors shape climate attitudes and policy support spans multiple countries, including the United States, India, Indonesia, Ireland, and nations across Latin America.
Dr. Verner has published extensively in leading journals on topics ranging from climate change messaging effectiveness to Indigenous political participation and environmental justice. Her work has been featured in major media outlets, and she has presented her research at conferences across North America. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado Boulder, where her dissertation explored environmental attitudes across the Americas.
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