Jaz Cummins
@jazcummins.bsky.social
Co-Founder of @empoweragency.bsky.social, with @benrmatthews.bsky.social, formerly @theguardian.com @unhcr.org, @amnestyuk.bsky.social, and many orgs in the climate policy space. Keen to connect with those working in climate.
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How do you balance pragmatism and vision when speaking about the climate and nature crisis? 🌾
Our Co-Founder @jazcummins.bsky.social recently attended Groundswell Agriculture festival for a deep dive into food systems and community resilience 👩🌾
Find out more: empower.agency/insights/cli...
Our Co-Founder @jazcummins.bsky.social recently attended Groundswell Agriculture festival for a deep dive into food systems and community resilience 👩🌾
Find out more: empower.agency/insights/cli...
“Diversity grows resilience”: Lessons from Groundswell for climate communicators
Systems thinking, storytelling, nature, and the future of food at Groundswell Agriculture festival.
empower.agency
July 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
How do you balance pragmatism and vision when speaking about the climate and nature crisis? 🌾
Our Co-Founder @jazcummins.bsky.social recently attended Groundswell Agriculture festival for a deep dive into food systems and community resilience 👩🌾
Find out more: empower.agency/insights/cli...
Our Co-Founder @jazcummins.bsky.social recently attended Groundswell Agriculture festival for a deep dive into food systems and community resilience 👩🌾
Find out more: empower.agency/insights/cli...
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"If you terrify people, they won’t engage."
Our Co-Founder @jazcummins.bsky.social recently attended an event run by Demos on involving the public in #NetZero.
Read her takeaways for climate communicators - including why we still need to be optimists 👇
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Our Co-Founder @jazcummins.bsky.social recently attended an event run by Demos on involving the public in #NetZero.
Read her takeaways for climate communicators - including why we still need to be optimists 👇
empower.agency/insights/dig...
Climate Insights: ‘Involving the public in achieving net zero’
Our founder recaps on event discussing the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s emerging Net Zero Public Participation Strategy.
empower.agency
April 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"If you terrify people, they won’t engage."
Our Co-Founder @jazcummins.bsky.social recently attended an event run by Demos on involving the public in #NetZero.
Read her takeaways for climate communicators - including why we still need to be optimists 👇
empower.agency/insights/dig...
Our Co-Founder @jazcummins.bsky.social recently attended an event run by Demos on involving the public in #NetZero.
Read her takeaways for climate communicators - including why we still need to be optimists 👇
empower.agency/insights/dig...
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This is such an important point, I make it in nearly every talk I give!
The majority of people —56% in the US!—are worried about climate change, but not activated.
Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will.
Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵
Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will.
Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is such an important point, I make it in nearly every talk I give!
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🚨 Starting NOW!🚨
Join the Collaborative Democracy Network to hear Kerry McCarthy MP, Minister for Climate, discuss the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s emerging Net Zero Public Participation Strategy. 🌍
📺 Watch the conversation here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/live/NIo6jSR...
Join the Collaborative Democracy Network to hear Kerry McCarthy MP, Minister for Climate, discuss the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s emerging Net Zero Public Participation Strategy. 🌍
📺 Watch the conversation here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/live/NIo6jSR...
Involving the public in achieving net zero
YouTube video by Demos
www.youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨 Starting NOW!🚨
Join the Collaborative Democracy Network to hear Kerry McCarthy MP, Minister for Climate, discuss the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s emerging Net Zero Public Participation Strategy. 🌍
📺 Watch the conversation here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/live/NIo6jSR...
Join the Collaborative Democracy Network to hear Kerry McCarthy MP, Minister for Climate, discuss the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s emerging Net Zero Public Participation Strategy. 🌍
📺 Watch the conversation here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/live/NIo6jSR...
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Are your Facebook ads suddenly underperforming?
🗓️ Join us on 10th April for the webinar ‘Meta Changes: Navigating the new reality for nonprofits’ to learn how you can ensure your digital campaigns remain effective amidst Meta’s latest updates.
Sign up below 👇
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🗓️ Join us on 10th April for the webinar ‘Meta Changes: Navigating the new reality for nonprofits’ to learn how you can ensure your digital campaigns remain effective amidst Meta’s latest updates.
Sign up below 👇
empower.agency/insights/eve...
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Are your Facebook ads suddenly underperforming?
🗓️ Join us on 10th April for the webinar ‘Meta Changes: Navigating the new reality for nonprofits’ to learn how you can ensure your digital campaigns remain effective amidst Meta’s latest updates.
Sign up below 👇
empower.agency/insights/eve...
🗓️ Join us on 10th April for the webinar ‘Meta Changes: Navigating the new reality for nonprofits’ to learn how you can ensure your digital campaigns remain effective amidst Meta’s latest updates.
Sign up below 👇
empower.agency/insights/eve...
Thanks for sharing your experiences @hannahlloyd-west.bsky.social, so insightful and great to reflect on, and look ahead 💛
Climate comms 🤝 neurodiversity
To mark #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek, @hannahlloyd-west.bsky.social reflected on her experience of COP27 as an autistic comms professional, and the importance of creating a truly inclusive workplace 🌎 ✨
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#NCW #ThisIsND
To mark #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek, @hannahlloyd-west.bsky.social reflected on her experience of COP27 as an autistic comms professional, and the importance of creating a truly inclusive workplace 🌎 ✨
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#NCW #ThisIsND
Climate Action, Autism, and Navigating COP
As we prepare for COP30 in Brazil, Hannah revisits her experience of COP27 as a neurodivergent comms professional.
empower.agency
March 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Thanks for sharing your experiences @hannahlloyd-west.bsky.social, so insightful and great to reflect on, and look ahead 💛
Our team love working with @lucycoast.bsky.social @evazabey.bsky.social and the @bfncoalition.bsky.social. I'm so proud of our ongoing strength in this space, and brilliant work together!
We’ve loved working with @bfncoalition.bsky.social for the last five years, championing the need for ambitious action to halt and reverse nature loss 🌳 🌍
Find out how we’ve helped BfN to remain ahead of the digital curve and reach their target audiences 👇
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Find out how we’ve helped BfN to remain ahead of the digital curve and reach their target audiences 👇
empower.agency/case-studies...
Building a digital strategy with a difference
How Empower built a long term partnership with Business for Nature, developing a digital strategy with a difference that keeps them ahead of competitors
empower.agency
March 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our team love working with @lucycoast.bsky.social @evazabey.bsky.social and the @bfncoalition.bsky.social. I'm so proud of our ongoing strength in this space, and brilliant work together!
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My thoughts on how companies can navigate a rapidly changing policy context for #sustainablebusiness in the US and Europe.
The new US administration has been in office for 30 days, and changes have come fast and furious, many of them relating to sustainable business. BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer discusses issues raised with member companies and shares key strategies for navigating a time of uncertainty and change.
Navigating Change: How Business Leaders Can Respond to a Changing Policy Environment | Blog | Sustainable Business Network and Consultancy | BSR
How can companies continue to deliver value and stability while navigating immense pressure from the new US administration to abandon their commitments to sustainable business?
www.bsr.org
February 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My thoughts on how companies can navigate a rapidly changing policy context for #sustainablebusiness in the US and Europe.
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We’ve heard your feedback and are excited to announce that our individual members can now sign up to our Mentoring Scheme as mentees too! This development allows more of you to benefit from peer-to-peer support by connecting with like-minded comms professionals. Find out more: bit.ly/4c6bNVN
February 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We’ve heard your feedback and are excited to announce that our individual members can now sign up to our Mentoring Scheme as mentees too! This development allows more of you to benefit from peer-to-peer support by connecting with like-minded comms professionals. Find out more: bit.ly/4c6bNVN
Here's me on the ground in 2016 at COP22 in Marrakech, the day we woke up to the first Trump presidency. Quite the atmosphere...
While the world reels again, from many blows & feels ever more complicated, I can look back and see so much positive change over 10 years too. Onwards.
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While the world reels again, from many blows & feels ever more complicated, I can look back and see so much positive change over 10 years too. Onwards.
lnkd.in/erhpzXuP
February 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Here's me on the ground in 2016 at COP22 in Marrakech, the day we woke up to the first Trump presidency. Quite the atmosphere...
While the world reels again, from many blows & feels ever more complicated, I can look back and see so much positive change over 10 years too. Onwards.
lnkd.in/erhpzXuP
While the world reels again, from many blows & feels ever more complicated, I can look back and see so much positive change over 10 years too. Onwards.
lnkd.in/erhpzXuP
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The #CaliFund, launched today at #COP16Resumed in Rome, is a vital first step in mobilizing private sector finance for biodiversity.
Now, governments must build business confidence and ensure the fund supports Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
🔗: bit.ly/4h16skK
Now, governments must build business confidence and ensure the fund supports Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
🔗: bit.ly/4h16skK
EU to work towards deal on COP16 biodiversity decisions
Europe is pushing for a deal at the resumed negotiations in Rome on issues, including resource mobilisation and the monitoring framework.
environment.ec.europa.eu
February 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The #CaliFund, launched today at #COP16Resumed in Rome, is a vital first step in mobilizing private sector finance for biodiversity.
Now, governments must build business confidence and ensure the fund supports Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
🔗: bit.ly/4h16skK
Now, governments must build business confidence and ensure the fund supports Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
🔗: bit.ly/4h16skK
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NEW: UK has published its biodiversity pledge (called an NBSAP), as countries gather in Rome for the second part of #COP16
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
UK national biodiversity strategy and action plan
This document sets out how the 4 countries of the UK will work together to address biodiversity loss.
www.gov.uk
February 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
NEW: UK has published its biodiversity pledge (called an NBSAP), as countries gather in Rome for the second part of #COP16
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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JOB OPPS: Want to work with me and a crack team, including Caroline Lucas? The @climatemajority.bsky.social has two roles to fill. If they are not for you, please help us get the best possible people applying by sharing.
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February 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
JOB OPPS: Want to work with me and a crack team, including Caroline Lucas? The @climatemajority.bsky.social has two roles to fill. If they are not for you, please help us get the best possible people applying by sharing.
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How do we get people to care about and act on climate?
Don't call it climate!
Talk about their health, their bills, their risk, their community, their kids future. Talk about what they care about, in their local community. Take the winning elements of populism -> #ClimatePopulism
Don't call it climate!
Talk about their health, their bills, their risk, their community, their kids future. Talk about what they care about, in their local community. Take the winning elements of populism -> #ClimatePopulism
@carolinelucas.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social are a powerful combination. They have teamd up here to make the case that those who want to see action and climate can and must learn from populism (but without needing any of its rampant deceit).
www.newstatesman.com/environment/...
www.newstatesman.com/environment/...
It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
www.newstatesman.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
How do we get people to care about and act on climate?
Don't call it climate!
Talk about their health, their bills, their risk, their community, their kids future. Talk about what they care about, in their local community. Take the winning elements of populism -> #ClimatePopulism
Don't call it climate!
Talk about their health, their bills, their risk, their community, their kids future. Talk about what they care about, in their local community. Take the winning elements of populism -> #ClimatePopulism
It's been wonderful building this list this week, and seeing connections grow. I am heartened to be reading the posts of climate scientists, journalists, communicators and just those that care, in the face of the headlines. Do keep connecting, I hope this community continues to build here 🤞🌍
Want to stay updated on all things climate communications? 🌍
Check out our starter pack of brilliant comms/marketing professionals working on climate and sustainability 📣
(and drop us a message to be added!)
go.bsky.app/CCH5ejL
Check out our starter pack of brilliant comms/marketing professionals working on climate and sustainability 📣
(and drop us a message to be added!)
go.bsky.app/CCH5ejL
February 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
It's been wonderful building this list this week, and seeing connections grow. I am heartened to be reading the posts of climate scientists, journalists, communicators and just those that care, in the face of the headlines. Do keep connecting, I hope this community continues to build here 🤞🌍
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In a world of increasing disinformation -- where governments and Big Tech are now leading sources of nonsense -- we need to listen to independent truth-tellers and experts.
Bluesky is a great place to find them.
Here's a starter pack of folks I'd recommend in climate.
go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV
Bluesky is a great place to find them.
Here's a starter pack of folks I'd recommend in climate.
go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV
February 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In a world of increasing disinformation -- where governments and Big Tech are now leading sources of nonsense -- we need to listen to independent truth-tellers and experts.
Bluesky is a great place to find them.
Here's a starter pack of folks I'd recommend in climate.
go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV
Bluesky is a great place to find them.
Here's a starter pack of folks I'd recommend in climate.
go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV
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I've been working with @theearthcommission.bsky.social since I started with @empoweragency.bsky.social in March last year.
Give them a follow to keep informed of their work towards a #SafeAndJust planet for all 🌍
Give them a follow to keep informed of their work towards a #SafeAndJust planet for all 🌍
“Scientifically, this is not a climate crisis. We are now facing something deeper: mass extinction, air pollution, undermining ecosystem functions [...] This is a planetary crisis.”
Our Co-Chair Johan Rockström speaking at the 2023 @weforum.org Annual Summit in #Davos
#tbt
Our Co-Chair Johan Rockström speaking at the 2023 @weforum.org Annual Summit in #Davos
#tbt
February 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I've been working with @theearthcommission.bsky.social since I started with @empoweragency.bsky.social in March last year.
Give them a follow to keep informed of their work towards a #SafeAndJust planet for all 🌍
Give them a follow to keep informed of their work towards a #SafeAndJust planet for all 🌍
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JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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"Even if the White House wishes it were otherwise, electrification isn’t going away. If Detroit is to compete, it needs a better plan than just selling trucks with ever bigger radiator grilles at ever higher prices." -- @liamdenning.bsky.social
Free to read: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Free to read: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Protectionism Looks More Like Self-Harm for US Automakers
Tumbling share prices at Ford and GM are evidence that tariff threats and attacks on EV-supportive policies are a blow to the industry.
www.bloomberg.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"Even if the White House wishes it were otherwise, electrification isn’t going away. If Detroit is to compete, it needs a better plan than just selling trucks with ever bigger radiator grilles at ever higher prices." -- @liamdenning.bsky.social
Free to read: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Free to read: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Now live! 🦋
Our Bluesky starter pack of climate communicators 🌍
Hear from comms/marketing professionals working on climate, sustainability, and the environment - and drop us a DM if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/CCH5ejL
Our Bluesky starter pack of climate communicators 🌍
Hear from comms/marketing professionals working on climate, sustainability, and the environment - and drop us a DM if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/CCH5ejL
February 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Now live! 🦋
Our Bluesky starter pack of climate communicators 🌍
Hear from comms/marketing professionals working on climate, sustainability, and the environment - and drop us a DM if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/CCH5ejL
Our Bluesky starter pack of climate communicators 🌍
Hear from comms/marketing professionals working on climate, sustainability, and the environment - and drop us a DM if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/CCH5ejL
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UK insurers paid out record £585m last year as climate breakdown intensifies #Climate
UK insurers paid out record £585m last year as climate breakdown intensifies
Insurers blame ‘significant and consistent bad weather’ after year of 12 named storms
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
UK insurers paid out record £585m last year as climate breakdown intensifies #Climate
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Britain's 2030 electric car target is "extremely useful" to ushering the technologies of the future, says Jim Rowan, CEO of Volvo Cars.
#ZEV
#ZEV
February 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Britain's 2030 electric car target is "extremely useful" to ushering the technologies of the future, says Jim Rowan, CEO of Volvo Cars.
#ZEV
#ZEV
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Folks who speak German or who speak Energy, please get in touch with Vladimir, he's been working to craft feeds that focus on climate for ages!
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So if you are fluent in:
-Energy (need more specific keywords for filtering) or
-German (need better keywords in German for Climate Change),
please contact me, so we can improve the feeds.
I am trying to amplify voices from scientist to media and public and i am doing this for free.
So if you are fluent in:
-Energy (need more specific keywords for filtering) or
-German (need better keywords in German for Climate Change),
please contact me, so we can improve the feeds.
I am trying to amplify voices from scientist to media and public and i am doing this for free.
February 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Folks who speak German or who speak Energy, please get in touch with Vladimir, he's been working to craft feeds that focus on climate for ages!
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Great thread on a really interesting report this. There's a worrying emissions gap, but it's also kind of encouraging that based on current trends the UK is on track to meet the initial targets of 80% emissions cuts by 2050 and clean power by 2035. The goals are affordable and within reach.
🧵 Britain is poised to fall short on key climate and energy goals because the switch to offshore wind power, electric cars and heat pumps is too sluggish, experts have said.
A report by the risk management consultancy DNV found the UK will only reach 88% clean power by 2030, not 95% as planned.
A report by the risk management consultancy DNV found the UK will only reach 88% clean power by 2030, not 95% as planned.
February 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great thread on a really interesting report this. There's a worrying emissions gap, but it's also kind of encouraging that based on current trends the UK is on track to meet the initial targets of 80% emissions cuts by 2050 and clean power by 2035. The goals are affordable and within reach.
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Remember when the progress %age for all things related to progress on climate change were, depressingly, in single figures? Well, now look at these very encouraging current figures from @nickhedley.bsky.social at The Progress Playbook.
#ClimateChange #ClimateChangeAction
#ClimateChange #ClimateChangeAction
February 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Remember when the progress %age for all things related to progress on climate change were, depressingly, in single figures? Well, now look at these very encouraging current figures from @nickhedley.bsky.social at The Progress Playbook.
#ClimateChange #ClimateChangeAction
#ClimateChange #ClimateChangeAction