The Climate Fresk
The Climate Fresk NGO was created in December 2018 by Cédric Ringenbach in order to accelerate the spread of the tool, to train and upskill Climate Fresk facilitators who are the international community of Freskers.
It is based on a decentralised and participative approach, based on the principles of do-docracy, the right to make mistakes, the rule of three, transparency and the duplication of initiatives.
OUR PURPOSE: To accelerate the understanding of climate issues at the global level in order to help trigger the necessary changes for the preservation of life as soon as possible.
Climate Fresk encourages the rapid and widespread spread of an understanding of climate issues.
OUR VISION: Climate change is a complex problem that affects us all, but it is still very badly understood by the general population.
We don’t have much time, but by understanding the challenge we can take our response to the next level.
Climate Fresk prompts participants to take constructive action to help tackle climate change.
Our ambition is to create a network of people that is growing exponentially who can pass on this quality climate education in order to reach a social tipping point that will help guide us to a low carbon world.
https://climatefresk.org/world/purpose/
Their main offering is a 3-hour workshop which teaches the fundamental science behind climate change and empowers participants to take action.
Theory of Change
- One of the things that is often emphasized on their website is 'scale'; namely, that their services can be applied to individuals, and to small or large organizations.
- Their approach is one where informing people and organisations about the climate crisis leads to more informed individuals and to better and more sustainable practices.
- "The Climate Fresk methodology doesn’t involve an expert presenting information to the group; instead, it requires all participants to take an active role in the building-up of the Fresk, becoming participative learners."
Key Learning Resources
They use the IPCC reports on climate change to guide their teaching: https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/