Why is public engagement and participation with net zero so important?
CAST’s deputy director Christina Demski has been on a part-time secondment to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as Net Zero Public Engagement Advisor since 2020. As part of her role supporting research and policy teams to effectively engage the public on net zero, she has written…
Call for abstracts – Symposium “Exploring the role of ‘moments of change’ in sustainability transitions” – London, June 13-14, 2022
**The call for abstracts has now closed**. People experience numerous planned and unplanned events, transitions and disruptions throughout their lives, from biographical changes (e.g. moving house, changing jobs) and life course transitions (e.g. having children, retiring), to exogeneous disruptions (e.g. blackouts, road closures and boiler breakages), environmental disasters (e.g. floods,…
The CAST Data Portal goes live! Explore and understand public perceptions of climate change
What do people across the world think about climate change? Do they want to see action or do they prefer things to stay the same? These are questions that many stakeholders are grappling with, whether they are academics, the media, policymakers, business, civil society practitioners or others. We know that…