Launching the Climate Majority Project

Hello Climate Majority,

Many thanks to those who attended Tuesday’s prelaunch event, at which we presented our theory of change and plans for our official launch on the 29th of June in London. If you want to listen to the event’s recording please find a link here.

Our new website has also gone live. Do check it out at www.climatemajorityproject.com.

The purpose of our prelaunch was also to invite you to get involved and help build the Climate Majority wherever you are, in whatever capacity you can. To this end, please find below a list of ways you can help out.

We always love to hear from you so please get in touch with any queries or comments you may have.

Warmest,

CMP Team

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If you feel called and have a little capacity, there are various ways you can support us. Here we’ve included links to the resources and guidance you need to take action towards activating and mobilising the Climate Majority movement.

Volunteer
We now need all hands on deck. There are various ways in which our growing movement would value your time, effort, and expertise. If you are able and would like to volunteer in some way please complete this Volunteer Form and one of us will be in touch.

If after completing the form you have any burning volunteer related questions or suggestions feel free to email [email protected] with the subject ‘PreLaunch follow up - VOLUNTEER’.

Collaborators

Many of you have shared how resonant our work is, and we encourage you to contact us to let us know how we can collaborate together towards our collective vision of an active, mass climate movement. Let’s connect.

Please email [email protected] with the subject ‘PreLaunch follow up - COLLABORATOR” and we will be in touch.

Write a blog/op-ed/article

Do you have a blog, or know a blog whose audience is well aligned with the CMP that you might like to write a guest blog for? If so please consider writing a blog post about the CMP, or mentioning us where relevant. Or perhaps you fancy writing an op-ed/letter and sending it to various newspapers for consideration to be published?

We are happy to look at a draft version and give feedback around the CMP messaging within the piece, and of course please let us know about any blogs/articles as published so we can share widely.
If you have an idea for a piece you’d like to write but are not sure where to place it - get in touch, we would love to support you :)

For all initial communications around writing a blog/article please email [email protected] with the subject ‘PreLaunch follow up - CALL TO ACTION and we will be in touch.

Beyond 1.5 letter
Are you a climate scientist or an academic/leader in any climate-related field? Do you have a bachelors in Earth Science/Natural Sciences/ Environmental Science/ Geography/Geology etc. and currently work in the private or charity/NGO sector delivering climate action in some way? Or perhaps you know someone who is or are well connected in this space?

If so, we would love you to be one of the signatories on this letter ahead of the launch, and before it is published.

Please send an email to [email protected] with the subject ‘PreLaunch follow up - BEYOND 1.5 Letter’ and Marc or Jen will be in contact.

Letter to the climate majority
It’s time for the climate majority to become aware of itself. We’re seeking high profile voices to echo our launch message, by signing and sharing another more general letter to be published in national media. We are assembling a group of high-profile signatories who are notable for their differences, but who agree that now is the time for a new era of climate action: one that includes us all.

As discussed at the prelaunch this letter invites signatories to join us in calling time on endless, empty last warnings for serious climate action, and calls attention to the concerned climate majority that does not yet know its own strength.

Do you have any connections to prominent public figures - celebrities, business/charity chairs or CEOs, politicians, etc. who share CMP values and might be willing to echo our message? Or any suggestions for appropriate, and perhaps ‘unusual’ voices? If so we’d love to hear from you Please email [email protected] with the subject ‘PreLaunch follow up - ECHOES LETTER’ and a member of our team will be in contact.

Alternatively, if you know a media space that could amplify the letter, please reach out via the same email.

Share CMP on social media
If you are active on social media please do follow us, and we would really appreciate any engagement with our posts - comments, likes, shares, retweets etc.

Please do use the #ClimateMajority hashtag wherever you can, and we will soon follow up with a social media toolkit that you can use yourself.

You can follow us on twitter, instagram and linkedin.

Host a CMP informal info social in your community(ies)
As well as creating a bit of CMP hype ahead of, and around the launch, it is also really important for CMP to connect with people, and make them feel heard, no longer alone, and part of the Climate Majority. This is always best done through conversations with people they know and trust. As such we really encourage you to talk to everyone aboutCMP and perhaps even organise some purposeful ‘CMP conversation socials’ in your own community(ies). This could be anything from inviting local friends to join you for a coffee, pint, knit, etc. to a walkshop. Perhaps you’d like to invite friends and family to study and reflect on the CMP ToC in a book-club style get-together. Whatever works for you!

We would love to hear about anything like this you do that proves to be really successful.

Lend your voice to the Chorus via Contribute to our Echoes Video

We are also inviting video contributions in two ways:

Ahead of the launch we will be creating a short video stitching together various people within the Climate Majority, reading a variation on this script. We would love you to contribute a video of yourself, and we may well include a snippet of you!

We also invite you to echo the main point of our launch in your own words and share it with us on social media. You can do so via our twitter, instagram, or linkedin channels. We plan to feature some of these videos on our website.

Please follow these video instructions and share your video to us before Friday 23rd June.