{"id":6222,"date":"2021-06-29T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faster-h2020.eu\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:07:08","slug":"climate-outreach-communicating-climate-change-in-tunisia-egypt-mauritania-with-lessons-for-north-africa-levant-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faster-h2020.eu\/index.php\/2021\/06\/29\/climate-outreach-communicating-climate-change-in-tunisia-egypt-mauritania-with-lessons-for-north-africa-levant-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Outreach: Communicating climate change in Tunisia, Egypt &#038; Mauritania \u2013 with lessons for North Africa &#038; Levant region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4c5;24 June 2021<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\">&#x1f4cd; Online Event<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, June 24th, Climate Outreach presented their report <a href=\"https:\/\/climateoutreach.org\/reports\/communicating-climate-tunisia-egypt-mauritania-north-africa-levant\/#\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u201c<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><b>Communicating climate change in Tunisia, Egypt &amp; Mauritania \u2013 with lessons for North Africa &amp; Levant region\u201d<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through an online event where FASTER was glad to participate. Their social research work tested language on climate change, creating advice that climate advocates across civil society and in government, media and business can use to resonate with their culture and experience. The analysis focused on a local audience, including rural women, fishermen, local and national politicians, students, farmers and herders.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Communicating climate change in Tunisia, Egypt &amp; Mauritania: with lessons for North Africa &amp; Levant\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zlgp_91awMA?start=6&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><b>The voice of impacted people and climate awareness<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was interesting to see the results and conclusions. The three countries have high climate impact, for example in Tunisia, water availability is expected to decline by 28% by 2030. However, there is a low climate concern and awareness among the population. What people living in North Africa and the Levant region did notice were the changes they observe on a day-to-day basis in their field of work. Therefore, the report suggests that in order to communicate climate change, the<\/span><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> voice of the people who are witnessing climate change<\/span> <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should be amplified. Also, it is important to use these local and nationally recognised impacts as a starting point to create awareness and understanding of climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><b>Social solidarity, resilience and action<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another way to engage with the public is to use a language that speaks to the shared and strong values, for instance in Tunisia the value that predominates is <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><i>\u201crespect.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is necessary to support the idea of mobilising together and building a robust community in times of change. For this, it is helpful to provide people with things to do.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><b>Take care and learnings<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When communicating climate change, it is important to take special care of the language used. We should avoid addressing it as personal responsibility and individual blame. Rather than pointing out the problems or the guilty, we should say what we can do to make them better, to provide tangible and real solutions. Another issue to keep in mind is avoiding Western terms and methodologies. On the opposite side, it is essential to focus on the overriding<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> importance of listening<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> to what is needed<\/span> <\/strong>by the community and build relationships.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In conclusion, we learnt it is important to use simple language that is contextual and localized so that it can be easily understood by everyone. We must avoid the \u201cblame\u201d tone, and highlight their great quality of resilience and adaptation, instead. The FASTER project will continue working to tackle the obstacles in communicating climate change and climate adaptation. Learning how to transmit our objectives is very important to reinforce research and knowledge transfer capacity related to innovative land and water management in view of climate change and its implementation through the use of Farm Advisory Systems (FAS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to learn more about how to communicate climate change, you can download the<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> full report<\/span><\/strong> here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/361GnjI\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/361GnjI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For our Arabic speakers, there will also be a webinar in <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Arabic on<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> J<\/span>uly 5, 2021<\/strong>.<\/span> Remember to register here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2U7N8xy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2U7N8xy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#04a368\">Follow #FASTERH2020 on<strong><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fasterh2020\/\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FasterH2020\">Twitter<\/a> to stay updated on its implementations and new courses.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong>Subscribe to our Newsletter to stay informed about the activities carried out by the project.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/gyUQMz\" style=\"background-color:#04a368\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4c5;24 June 2021&#x1f4cd; Online Event Last week, June 24th, Climate Outreach presented their report \u201cCommunicating climate change in Tunisia, Egypt &amp; Mauritania \u2013 with lessons for North Africa &amp; Levant region\u201d through an online event where FASTER was glad to participate. 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