SMEs are less able to negotiate competitive prices for energy. For many, the energy price crisis is an existential challenge.

Over half of UK businesses express concern over energy price impact. energylivenews.com/2024/03/20/ove…

The CAST Data Portal re-launch is now live on our website 📢

The data (from a set of global surveys) reveals that public concern about #ClimateChange is still high and people want to see urgent action 🚨

Explore the data: cast.ac.uk/resources/cast…

Key findings🧵(1/4)

Very interesting preprint on the Carbon Capability of the wealthiest people in the UK 💰🌍

We need many more climate behavioral studies with wealthy participants, given their disproportionate climate impacts and influence🙏
Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE Sam Hampton
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The Climate Change Committee recommends that better enabling low carbon 'green' choices by the public and businesses could help meet net zero targets. Read our new POSTnote for a look at the challenges and options for sectors with the highest emissions: post.parliament.uk/research-brief….

Why billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targets theconversation.com/why-billionair… Dr Steve Westlake

How can we effectively engage people we know in climate change conversations when extreme weather events occur?

Our new (open access) paper brings together many existing insights 🧵

With peter walton, James Painter, @sue_flocke, and Dr Friederike Otto

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Lauren Tuckerman getting the second presentation underway for CReST #RSAWebinar ‘Small Business and Green Transitions’ she will be introducing us to Green Street an initiative helping hospitality SMEs slash their carbon footprint.
#Sustainability #SmallBusiness

🚨Still time to register for today's 12pm BST CReST #RSAWebinar on:

➡️Multi-level Governance of SME Climate Action
📢 Sam Hampton & Lauren Tuckerman
🪑 Laura Norris

To register for free and more info:

ℹ️ bit.ly/crest2023

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How smaller businesses can become net-zero influencers and enablers theconversation.com/how-smaller-bu… UKERC

🚨 Our next CREST #RSAWebinar is next week:

➡️Multi-level Governance of SME Climate Action
⏰ 19 Oct 12pm BST / 1pm CEST
📢 Sam Hampton & Lauren Tuckerman
🪑 Will Eadson
ℹ️ bit.ly/crest2023

These webinars are free to attend and open to all.

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SMEs form the backbone of every economy, and they therefore have a crucial role to play in addressing climate change Sam Hampton

Government must act to boost net-zero efforts among small firms oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23837730.…

Very interesting looking article by Sam Hampton and Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE in One Earth reviewing the multiple roles individuals can play in #ClimateAction

doi.org/10.1016/j.onee…

Two weeks ago, I successfully defended my PhD in climate change communication from SoGE, University of Oxford / ECI, Univ of Oxford!

Thanks so much to my brilliant external/internal examiners Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE & Sam Hampton + three supervisors James Painter peter walton @frediotto

Individual changes do they matter re climate? Excellent paper making a case for how much there is we can influence things from Sam Hampton and Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE cell.com/action/showPdf…

A recent article by Sam Hampton and Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE served as a very helpful visualisation of six domains of action which people can take to mitigate #climatechange :

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Congratulations to our CAST affiliate Sam Hampton and co-author, CAST Director Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE, on the publication of their new article in One Earth reviewing the multiple roles individuals can play in #ClimateAction . 🌍👏

Read the journal article: cell.com/one-earth/full…