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Grantee
Yale University
Area
Environmental Solutions
Amount
$712477
Date Approved
5/17/2025
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Public understanding of climate change is limited and it is ineffectively communicated. Communication research is needed to develop effective messages, trusted messengers, and connect with audiences.  The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) will produce, test, and broadcast climate change stories to a national radio audience with 2 goals: 1. to win over those who are skeptical or uninformed, whom are identified as the Cautious, Disengaged, Doubtful and Dismissive, drawing on the Six Americas framework; and 2. to motivate and guide action among the Alarmed and Concerned.  For the first four audiences, and separately for the second two, each year YPCCC will write, produce and broadcast at least 50 new radio stories and evaluate the impact of 10. Goal 3: downscale and map message treatment effects based on durability and dosage experiment results from the last grant cycle.  YPCCC will share results with their followers and partner network.  The project will amplify awareness of the urgency of addressing climate change and motivate action among the six strategic audiences have identified. YPCCC conducted this work at the national level in prior grant cycles.  Now, an additional sample size will allow them to predict which areas of the country will respond favorably to messages, creating a local communication planning tool.