Speaking on Climate: A Guide to Speechwriting for a Better Future - Softcover

Nielsen, Rune Kier

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798765627587

Publisher: Zest Books (Tm), 2025

Synopsis

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

What makes a good speech? Better yet, what makes an effective speech?

A speech can inform, entertain, educate. But effective speeches inspire an audience to act and build a sense of community. The climate crisis is a pressing issue, and the ability to successfully communicate about it is crucial to bring people together to make meaningful change.

Discover how to stand up, speak your mind, and encourage your audience past climate silence. By analyzing speeches and how they worked, social anthropologist and professional speechwriter Rune Kier Nielsen breaks down nine common flaws of climate rhetoric and how to fix them in this thorough, engaging guide to speechwriting toward climate action.

"A lively, concise, and practical antidote to climate anxiety and a guide to positive action."--Kirkus Reviews

"Speaking on Climate by Rune Kier Nielsen is a crucial guide for anyone committed to using the power of words to drive meaningful climate action."--Ingmar Rentzhog, founder & CEO, Wedonthavetime.org

"Rune Kier Nielsen's Speaking on Climate inspires readers' passion for climate change and equips them with the tools to communicate effectively."--S. Kelley Harrell, author of From Elder to Ancestor: Nature Kinship for All Seasons of Life

About this title

About the Author

Rune Kier Nielsen is a Social Anthropologist having studied social movements in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. He has worked as a government speechwriter for mayors in the Danish Capital of Copenhagen, the Danish Ministry for Climate and Energy as well as the Ministry for the Environment. He's won two of the prestigious Cicero Speechwriting Awards while also writing for activists and idealists as part of the Danish Climate Movement and TEDx. He has taught climate communication at high schools, colleges and universities. He is the former Public Advocacy Lead on Climate Action at the United Nations Environment Programme--the UN's authoritative voice on climate and the environment. Rune lives in Denmark with his wife and two kids.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zest Books (Tm)
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798765627587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200