Climate Nuggets

Policymaker and Candidates Targeting

 

• Identify high-leverage policy opportunities which can impact U.S. Emissions

• Determine metrics for monitoring program effectiveness. 

• Identify Policymakers / Candidates and their social media platform addresses. 

 

Nugget Content Design

 

• Find critical messages in scientific literature and community;

• Validate that each one is important enough to be pushed as a Policy Nugget;

• Collect scientific and public citations;

• Write brief, explaining conclusions to be captured as the nugget;

• Construct graphic Nuggets;

• Communications Team puts in final form;

• Send to cited scientists and sources for comment, support, correction, etc.

 

Web Construction

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• Design and Construct effective web presence and tools

• Set up for sign in, donations, notifications of new content, mailing lists, partners

• Social Media Leverage

  • Find and perfect easy-to-use Post and Re-Post techniques and quick-links to enable visitors to Climatenuggets.org to send Nuggets to current and potential policymakers on their social media platforms (e.g., X, Facebook, Instagram, Substack, BlueSky, etc.). 

  • In this way the communications are visible to many others, providing education and the opportunity for large numbers of reinforcing re-postings.

• Develop automatic tools for measuring the number, types, and policymaker targets for Nuggets promulgated from our site and re-posted by constituents through their social media sites​

 

Constituent Targeting

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• Identify potential organizations / partners whose members are constituents of current and potential policymakers.

• Develop relationships with such potential partners to identify best Nugget/social media strategies;

• Assist in communicating to members and stimulating Nugget promulgation;

• identify additional Nuggets which we can develop to further our joint organizational agendas.

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Communications

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• Validate that a proposed Policy Nugget is critical information for constituents and policymakers

• Determine the most effective way(s) to present the Nugget to make an ultimate educational and  policy impact.

• Propose alternative messaging and graphic approaches to the Design Team

 

External interface and Press

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• Develop partnerships with national and regional organizations to expand Nugget promulgation.

• Get the word out!

 

Populate website with other materials

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• Add and develop other Nugget-related materials including videos, studies, website links, etc. which support effective constituent and policymaker climate education