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Proving ordinary people can be net zero heroes

Climate change affects everyone, so shouldn’t everyone have a say? 89up joined forces with Doc Society to show everyday people taking on the experts to work out how to fix the planet, one household at a time.

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The client

Doc Society:  For the first time in UK history, Parliament organised 108 ordinary people to form a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change to tackle the biggest challenges facing the planet today.

Key stats

57

Total pieces of coverage

45M+

Estimated reach

Daily Express, Daily Mirror, The Sun, LBC News, Financial Times, Channel 4 News, Yours Magazine, MSN UK, Yahoo UK, Green Business.

Coverage highlights
 

The challenge

The People Versus Climate Change is a behind the scenes documentary film that tells the story of the UK Climate Assembly and the everyday net zero heroes involved. 

This was the first citizens assembly on the issue and allowed ordinary people to hear from experts about climate change - including David Attenborough - and make recommendations on what steps government, business and society should take.

Doc Society asked 89up to launched the film’s release on the BBC, but also to support the stars of the show campaigning in their communities to make real change happen on clean air, green jobs, and electric cars.

The solution

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89up developed a national launch strategy to promote the film, and also 89up created thematic campaigns for key figures in the documentary and provided media training for them, we also provided them guidance for posting on social media. 

We followed Sue, who features in the programme, and highlighted her campaign to get her local Sainsburys to install more electric car charging points; Amy who called for her housing association to replace the coal fire that is making her son’s asthma worse; and Marc who was keen that a green transition doesn’t impact jobs. 

We also organised a screening of the film in Parliament, and created graphics showing the impact of rising sea levels on different constituencies which were sent to MPs across the country.