Changeprint Is Making An Impact

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Changeprint is seen as a positive antidote to the Net Zero discourse.

A new change maker has downloaded the report every working hour.

Hundreds of organisations are creating a Changeprint.

Just three of the headlines that indicate the appetite for a new narrative about tackling the climate crisis and a willingness to take things into our own hands.

Changeprint is seen as a positive antidote to the Net Zero discourse.

Changeprint is simply a way to talk about the wider benefits of collective local climate action beyond reducing carbon emissions. Less about reducing your carbon footprint. More about the positives from collaborating with other people, through work or in your community.

“Changeprint is such a wonderful, positive approach to shaping a better future together. We immediately started working out where we can talk about it in our Carbon Literacy course!” Kate Stansfield – Carbon Literacy trainer

To quote Oliver Balch, a journalist who contributes to the FT, The Guardian and Reuters among others, Changeprint is an “excellent antidote to the Net Zero discourse”. Why? Because Net Zero is divorced from everyday concerns and is becoming a political dividing line, not something that brings people together.

As we listen to the chatter online about Changeprint, we’ve heard an overwhelmingly positive response to the idea. The idea that we can make the place around us better by acting together strikes a chord with a lot of people and is appealing when there’s so much apparent divisiveness in the news.

A new change maker has downloaded the report every working hour.

From Footprint to Changeprint is a new research report and action guide, created to help local change makers deliver climate and nature action more effectively.

Since publication in mid-March, on average, a new change maker has downloaded this guide every working hour! Looking at who’s using the report, these change makers come from organisations of all shapes and sizes, from the public, private and third sector. What they have in common is a willingness to work with other groups locally to create a bigger Changeprint.

“Changeprint and Carbon Copy’s new report are timely resources that support the urgent, on-the-ground response to the National Emergency Briefing.”
Daniel Stunell – Managing Consultant at Eunomia

This new report complements Climate Emergency UK’s Council Climate Action Scorecard work, giving councils effective ways to engage with the wider public to deliver on area-wide goals for climate and nature.

It’s also being used as a useful ‘next steps’ resource in People’s Emergency Briefings around the UK, for people who are ready to act.

Hundreds of organisations are creating a Changeprint.

Over 600 organisations have shared their climate action stories on Carbon Copy and each one is creating a Changeprint. This is the tip of the iceberg.

The impact is getting bigger, faster, not by organisational growth but by other groups and organisations copying what works. This healthy way of growing mimics nature’s genius for encouraging diversity and multiplicity.

“We frequently hear questions like, ‘How can we make a bigger impact, we’re just a small parish?’ The Changeprint action guide is generating some strong, very positive answers.” Graham Stoddart-Stones – The Great Collaboration; parish councillor

The power of proliferation is two-fold: when they succeed, solutions are quickly copied and adapted; if they fail, they fail on a manageable scale with a multitude of backups already in place elsewhere. The power of this new Changeprint report is in the support it provides to a multitude of different people, strengthening the factors for success in their own work.

Where we go from here is up to you. Please continue to provide us with your feedback at [email protected] on the additional support you would like from Carbon Copy and to share these resources with others who you think will also benefit.