Pathfinder Engagement Lessons

1. WG Pathfinder:
Lessons for Engaging Communities
on Climate Change
for Climate Change Commission for Wales

2. [BEFORE]
• Carbon targets
• CC focus
• Behaviour change requirement
• Policy timelines
• Metrics
• Unfunded DOs
[AFTER]
• Soft and Hard Impacts
• Groups’ effectiveness
• Learning & change
• Rhythms & Journeys
• Stories
• Unfunded PCs

3. • Do Engagement from the bottom up
• Start from where (different) groups are at… and go on a journey (groups
are not delivery bodies)
• ‘Green’ speaks to niches, and (most) communities don’t count carbon
• Try SD on the ground, not CC in the air (flood, food, health, jobs)
• Community action takes time (and stability) – and measurable impacts
take longer
• Do behaviour change with not to (a way of working)
• If you take learnings in lieu of impacts, onus is on you to share learnings,
and then act on them