climate advocacy

Pushing for sustainability

Climate advocacy is organized effort to influence policy, behavior, or public opinion on climate change.

Advocates push for emissions reductions, renewable energy adoption, or environmental regulations through lobbying, protest, education, or media campaigns: Her climate advocacy began with local recycling initiatives and grew into national organizing.

The term covers everything from grassroots activism to corporate sustainability campaigns.

Related

carbon neutral · net zero · emissions · green · sustainability · march · rally · Greta · youth movement · movement · policy · fossil fuels · renewable · solar · wind · petition · grassroots · lobbying

Opposites
stance on climate action

climate advocacyclimate denial

Rejecting scientific consensus on warming

climate denialism · climate skepticism · anti-environmentalism · greenwashing

engagement level

climate advocacydisengagement

Withdrawal from involvement

willful ignorance · inaction · head-in-the-sand

Family

climate, advocacy, climates, climatic, climatically, climatology, climatological, climatologist, advocate

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G