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Featuring the CAU: Five things that would be different in a land of climate action

1 February 2024

In an online post for Friends of Europe, The CAU Director outlines five mindsets and practices that would flourish in the theoretical 'land of climate action'.

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A new blog written by Dr Kris De Meyer invites the reader on an interesting thought experiment. It outlines five practices that may look naive or odd in our current world of 'climate awareness' but would be common sense in the as-yet-undiscovered 'land of climate action'Drawing on insights from neuroscience, these practices depict how people across different sectors would work collaboratively to implement climate action across all reaches of everyday life. 

Excerpt below:

If we lived in a world where we really knew how to tackle climate change, we would be doing many things differently from today. In the land of climate action, people are better at distinguishing where their expertise ends and their opinion begins. In the land of climate action, people value putting their knowledge and expertise together over arguing their own position.

To read the full article, click here