Act * Inspire * Achieve

Ireland’s Climate Ambassadors are volunteers from across the country communicating within their localities about Climate Change and also collaborating locally on related projects to make a real difference through Climate Action.

Host a Climate Conversation

Hosting a climate conversation with family, friends, colleagues and classmates can be a great way to bring up a topic that is often avoided. Come together with others for a chat and a cuppa (and cake!) to explore how we can take action collectively on climate change. We can help guide you through the facilitation of such a discussion. Connecting and showing support to each other is a great first step in taking climate action together. These discussions can help you identify what are the best suited actions for your local environment.

Give a Climate Presentation

Giving a presentation can be a daunting task, but fear not, we will guide you through the best practises and give you training to help your presentation connect with your audience. You will learn how to give an engaging presentation and how to inspire your audience to take Climate Action. Having a Q&A afterwards allows your audience to participate and voice their opinions – another great way of identifying what Climate Actions are best suited to your locality.

Communicate through the media

By communicating with the media you are reaching out to a wider audience to inform and engage with. By using your local voice, you can connect with local issues related to climate change, and from a local viewpoint on the national and global climate change issues. You can also use this opportunity to advertise climate actions you are planning and to recruit interested people into local climate action projects. The media to connect with would include local and national newspapers, newsletters, TV and Radio. Climate Ambassadors will be provided with support and templates on how best to communicate with the media.

Communicate through social media

There are a whole host of ways to use social media to communicate climate change issues, publicise climate actions you are planning and to also share events that have been carried out. This can be done through uploading written content, pictures and videos onto social media or writing a blog.
You can also develop video content as your climate action work progresses. You could create video content for a vlog and we can upload your material onto the Climate Ambassador social media channels in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Meet Your Politicians

By communicating with your local representatives and sharing with them your concerns related to climate change, you’re letting the political leaders know that you want to see climate action carried out at all levels of Ireland. Requests such as: introduce a fair payment for solar electricity, to kick-start community ownership; divest taxpayers’ money from fossil fuels and increase investment in cycling, walking and clean public transport are some suggestions that organisations have recently made to TD’s and Senators. Your local councillors are also a great group who can effect real change locally. To find out who your local TD’s are, go to here: https://www.whoismytd.com/ To find your local councillors, go to: http://www.gov.ie/tag/local-authorities/

Host a film screening in your community

Watching an environmental movie or documentary can be a fun and engaging way to bring your community together to collectively learn about climate change. By holding a Q&A discussion afterwards it can help identify local issues and galvanise the community into taking climate actions. Venues such as libraries and communities halls will usually offer free use of their facilities. Invite people to bring and share snacks.
Good movie suggestions include: An Inconvenient Truth; Chasing Ice; Mission Blue (all available on Netflix); An Inconvenient Sequel; The Island President; Before The Flood

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Carry out a local questionnaire

Questionnaires can be carried out to better understand what the current knowledge-base and opinions are of environmental issues are within your community, which can then inform future climate actions, depending on what the outcomes of the surveys are. This information may also prove helpful when looking for assistance from local government, as the data gathered can support justification of certain actions to be taken. Climate Ambassadors will be provided with support on questions for your survey.