Climate Disagreement Community of Practice

Communities, organisations, and individuals are increasingly having to navigate the impacts of environmental change and the difficult decisions that come with adapting to such changes. Cutting across debates around land use change, energy infrastructures, nature recovery, and other place-based interventions are themes of trust, inequality, inclusion, (mis)information and the role of knowledge. Debates are becoming more visible, more complex, and more contested.

But rather than seeing this as a barrier, this Community of Practice asks whether controversy can be a force for good. How could constructive disagreement become a catalyst for better governance, more meaningful participation and a more sustainable future?

In each session we will invite a CoP member to share their work, and then explore how the different perspectives and knowledges we each hold can help us apply the ideas in the presentation in practice at different levels of scale – e.g. our specific work, our personal experience, the wider system.

January’s session theme is TBC.

If you would like to join the invitation list, or share your work at a future session please contact Peter at gfn@exeter.ac.uk.