Rethinking Climate: Communicating Sustainability

[18] Final Judgement On Climate Action: In Conversation With Lucie Greyl

[Episode 18] The organization A SUD is suing the Italian Government for failing to apply efficient climate action in a final judgment campaign.
"Giudizio Universale" (Last Judgement) is a campaign for a lawsuit against the Italian Government, started on June 5, 2021, on behalf of more than 200 plaintiffs, including citizens, minors, and associations by the organization A SUD holding the Italian Government responsible for not applying efficient climate actions.
"The climate emergency is here: it is already affecting our lives and will spare no one. 
All Italian governments have postponed courageous decisions to prevent the disaster. But now we cannot wait any longer: our future depends on it. 
This intolerable inaction prompts us to address the State and its responsibilities. 
We are citizens, students, scientists, lawyers, activists, and volunteers.
We are all climate victims.
We are suing the Italian state."
An anthropologist by training, Lucie is a member of the Italian environmental Organisation A Sud since 2008 where she works as a project manager, research, and trainer. Lucie is also president of CDCA - the Documentation Centre on Environmental Conflicts. Environmental and climate activist, Lucie coordinates the Giudizio Universale Campaign, promoting the climate litigation against the Italian State for insufficiency of the State climate measures, presented in the civil court of Rome the last June 2021.
Support "Giudizio Universale" #FACCIAMO CAUSA  
https://giudiziouniversale.eu https://www.facebook.com/arrivailgiudiziouniversale/ https://www.instagram.com/giudizio__universale/ https://twitter.com/il__giudizio https://asud.net/ 
#asud #giudiziouniversale

[17] Make Europe Dream Again: In Conversation With Carlo Corazza

[Episode 17] Communicating to different stakeholders on several topics is a complex, yet crucial task. A task we talked about with Carlo Corazza, Head Of Office and Spokesperson to the European Parliament offices in Italy.  
 🇪🇺 What are the challenges of communicating matters to the Member States in the #EuropeanUnion, and #EuropeanParliament?  
🇪🇺 How can we best foster cooperation and effective information sharing?   
* This interview was recorded before the passing of late European Parliament President David Sassoli.

[16] Change Game: In Conversation With Eleonora Cogo (Feat. Paola Valandro)

"Build a community and keep everyone happy. You may encounter heat waves, droughts, floods, rising sea levels, or the spread of new diseases. Can you make it?"  
[Episode 16] Scientist Eleonora Cogo, ideator of the Change Game shortlisted in the Best Innovation category at the Italian Video Game Awards, describes its potential to represent the human impact on the planet and climate change's complexity. This episode feats project manager Paola Valandro who collaborated on the project with Eleonora.  
🌎 What if a videogame could help people of all ages grasp the complexity of human impact on our planet?  
🌎 What if they could try giving it a go and try out what it means to build a "sustainable" city and planet?   
With scientist Eleonora Cogo we looked at the communication potentials of a videogame, such as "Change Game."    
Download the game   
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1514086644
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.cmcc.changegame 
Game's Official Website: https://www.changegame.org/ 
Discover more about the speakers and the game:   
Eleonora Cogo is a climate change and sustainability professional with 15 years of experience working with businesses and governments. She has been a Senior Scientific Manager at the Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and a member of the Italian delegation and EU team of negotiators at the UN climate negotiations (UNFCCC) which led to the Paris Agreement in 2015. She has served on the board of the Adaptation Fund.   
Paola Valandro is senior project manager of ART-ER. Working in the field of education and training since 2000, she is involved in projects and initiatives at the regional and European level to valorize talents and competencies for innovation, culture, and creativity. © 2021 Rethinking Climate: Communicating Sustainability

[15] Comunicare Il Cambiamento Climatico: In Conversazione Con Luca Mercalli

[Episodio 15] Luca Mercalli ci espone la grande complessità della narrativa sul cambiamento climatico e come parlarne efficacemente.  
"Anche per i problemi climatici si dia fiducia al settore scientifico. [Il settore] invece è #inquinato dai #negazionisti che spesso afferiscono da altre materie. Noi abbiamo un negazionismo che arriva da scienziati di altre discipline - che per motivi vari - si gettono nel campo dei colleghi [#climatologi] e pretendono di insegnare loro il mestiere. " (Luca Mercalli)  
🌎 I negazionisti, gli esperti e la scienza. Parlare del cambiamento climatico non è semplice e richiede attenzione e precisione. Bisogna dare valore all'informazione e a chi la condivide e crea nonchè imparare a esporla al meglio - un azione non sempre facile neanche per gli scienziati.  
🌎 Scopri NIMBUS il sito ufficiale della Società Meteorologica Italiana (SMI) la maggiore associazione nazionale per lo studio e la divulgazione di meteorologia, climatologia e glaciologia: http://www.nimbus.it/meteoshop/VediMsg.asp?IdMsg=3 
🌎 Luca Mercalli è un climatologo, si occupa di ricerca su variazioni del clima e ghiacciai delle Alpi occidentali, mitigazione e adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici, comunicazione del rischio climatico, efficienza energetica ed energie rinnovabili, sostenibilità ambientale. © 2021 Rethinking Climate: Communicating Sustainability

[14] Fighting Euroscepticism With FIDU: In Conversation With Lucia Caccialupi

[Episode 14] During this holiday spirit, Rethinking Climate interviewed Lucia Caccialupi currently volunteering for FIDU promoting the protection of human rights and recent CommEUnication project fighting Euroscepticism. 
The Italian Federation for Human Rights – Italian Helsinki Committee (under the acronym, FIDU) is an organization of the Third Sector, i.e. a non-profit civil society organization. Active since 6 October 1987 as Italian Helsinki Committee, FIDU promotes the protection of human rights, intends to work to spread the knowledge of human rights, monitor and report their violations, create greater awareness in public opinion, and exert influence on the States so that they comply with their own commitments on human rights.
CommEUnication 
The “CommEUnication – Youth Engagement for Communicating the EU” is funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Commission. The project aims at countering Euroscepticism through the construction of a new strategy of communication able to promote a correct understanding of the EU, its values, and its benefits and at empowering citizens to widen their civic participation and to tackle disinformation.

[13] Civil Service With Mani Tese: In Conversation With Francesca Giacometti

During this holiday spirit, Rethinking Climate interviewed Francesca Giacometti about her civil service work with Mani Tese to support international cooperation for climate justice.  
🌎 Mani Tese is a non-profit, Non-Governmental Organization and recognized Charitable Organization, which has been fighting to achieve social, economic, and environmental justice around the world for over 50 years. It operates in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with international cooperation projects aimed at developing an independent and sustainable economy collectively with local communities. In Italy, thanks to thousands of active volunteers, it promotes educational projects, volunteering camps, and lifestyles based on solidarity and sustainability.  
🌎 Francesca Giacometti has a degree in geography and is carrying out a year of civil service at Mani Tese. Since her university yes, she has been volunteering in different fields, mainly thanks to student associations. Mani Tese is a partner of the project Food Wave, which is co-funded by the EU and promoted by the Municipality of Milan together with 29 partners across 17 countries. The Food Wave consortium involves 16 cities and municipal agencies plus 13 civil society organizations closely linked with the cities. C40, the international network of cities engaged in the fight against climate change, is also affiliated with the project.  
🌎 Rethinking Climate is one winner of Food Wave's call "Street Action" promoted by the Municipality of Milan for a project called "Ripensare Il Clima" to engage local communities in climate action.

[12] Power To Words: In Conversation With Grammenos Mastrojeni

In this episode, we interviewed Grammenos Mastrojeni, an Italian diplomat, professor, and writer who has focused for the past 25 years on the societal, geo-strategic, and economic impacts of environmental degradation.   
Grammenos has focused on topics related to environmental protection, human cohesion, peace, and security and is currently Senior Deputy Secretary at the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).   
Being able to communicate in the decision-making scenarios is fundamental and requires not only efficiency, and skills, but also heart and emotions. Grammenos is also a writer who has published several books and we discuss what it takes to send an effective call to action.   
Discover Mastrojeni's latest publications "Greenhouse Effect, War Effect" (2020) and "The Butterfly Effect: Five Ways Towards Happiness To Save Our Planet": 
➡️ https://www.ibs.it/effetto-serra-effetto-guerra-clima-libro-grammenos-mastrojeni-antonello-pasini/e/9788832963007?inventoryId=172222072
➡️ https://www.amazon.it/Effetti-farfalla-felicit%C3%A0-salvare-pianeta-ebook/dp/B08QSN5915 
🌎 what can we do to communicate better when we speak to policy-makers? Or when we want to send an emotional message?   
© 2021 Rethinking Climate: Communicating Sustainability

[1] The Honest Activist : In Conversation With Paola Fiore

[1] The Honest Activist: In Conversation With Paola FioreHow would you define an 'environmental activist'?  
The environment is now the 'cool' topic. Fortunately, many are now eager to act by taking sustainable steps to improve our current and future Planet's state. We invited Dr. Paola Fiore, sustainability expert, to talk about activism and to try and answer the question: who is an honest activist? 
Dr. Paola Fiore is a sustainability management and communications specialist, international pluri-certified coach and trainer, professional journalist and documentary photographer, and climate change expert and environmental advocate. Dr. Fiore is the Founder of ETICAMBIENTE® Sustainability Management & Communications Consulting, and Volunteer National Coordinator for Italy for The Climate Reality Project Europe.