Climate Policy Communication & Public Engagement
Jack Jardine
Supporting clear communication, participation, and public understanding in climate transition and sustainability policy.
Current Work
This page records the work I am currently doing, and have recently been doing, across climate communication, public trust, and climate policy implimentation.
It includes ongoing projects, collaborations, talks, and in other professional and civic contexts.
Entries are added as work happens.
Current Work List
Ground-Truth Governance Framework published as public resource
This work addresses the recurring implementation gap between climate or public policy design and real-world delivery conditions. Many programmes fail not because of strategy intent, but because operational realities, user constraints, and frontline feedback become filtered out through reporting structures, performance metrics, and procurement systems before they influence decision-making. The Ground-Truth Governance framework responds to this structural disconnect by providing a diagnostic method to trace where lived experience is lost within institutional processes and to support more reliable, usable, and trusted policy delivery.
Quoted in Canvas8 analysis on sustainable travel behaviour and structural pathways for lower-impact transport
Climate transition policies often rely on individual behavioural change messaging, yet real-world transport choices are strongly shaped by infrastructure availability, pricing structures, and system-level design.
Understanding how public attitudes interact with structural conditions is essential for developing credible pathways toward lower-impact transport and sustained behavioural adoption.
Facilitated an independently organised online working session titled Climate Policy in Practice: Testing Participation in a Scottish Context, exploring how climate policy participation translates into everyday civic experience.
The session tested whether small, structured, low-resource participatory discussions could surface practical insights into how individuals understand climate policy, trust decision-making processes, and experience public engagement mechanisms in Scotland.
The discussion examined awareness, engagement, and influence as participation layers, alongside common barriers including communication complexity, accessibility constraints, and public trust dynamics.
A persistent implementation gap exists between formal climate policy frameworks and how participation is experienced in everyday civic life.
While governments increasingly emphasise consultation and engagement, limited understanding remains of whether participation formats themselves function effectively at small scale, particularly regarding accessibility, trust, clarity of messaging, and perceived influence.
Testing participatory formats in real-world conditions supports evidence-based development of engagement approaches aligned with European climate governance priorities around public trust, behavioural change, and inclusive policy delivery.
Published commentary in American Recycler on vehicle plastics and end-of-life environmental impact
Growing material complexity in modern vehicle manufacturing is creating structural challenges for recycling systems, raising questions about lifecycle environmental impact, regulatory responsibility, and infrastructure readiness for circular automotive design.
Joined an online political advocacy workshop hosted by Parents for Future UK on methods for influencing elected representatives on climate and nature issues.
My participation formed part of ongoing monitoring and analysis of how climate engagement and political influence mechanisms are being framed and communicated in UK civic contexts,particularly where these approaches intersect with broader systems level climate objectives and institutional delivery.
The divergence between civic advocacy models and systemic climate policy delivery, and the need to understand how public engagement and political influence techniques are taught and communicated within non institutional contexts.
Attended an advocacy training session focused on strengthening community engagement with climate policy and decision makers.
A persistent gap between community-led climate action and effective engagement with political decision makers, alongside limited structural support for communities seeking to influence climate policy outcomes.
Joined the online policy discussion hosted by PubAffairsBruxelles examining the challenges and opportunities facing the EU battery and raw materials industries, with a focus on regulation, supply chains, sustainability, and industrial transition.
Tensions between climate transition objectives and the environmental, regulatory, and material constraints of large-scale battery and energy infrastructure deployment across Europe.
Attended the Zero Waste Scotland webinar “Roadmap to circularity for islands and rural communities”, focused on practical delivery of circular economy models in geographically constrained contexts.
How to deliver circular economy systems in islands and rural communities where infrastructure, logistics, scale, and governance constraints differ significantly from urban models.
Joined the Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECCAN) as part of ongoing work to understand how local climate action is coordinated at city level, and how community, third-sector, and public actors interface in practice.
The gap between national and EU level climate policy ambition and the practical, place based mechanisms through which climate action is coordinated and delivered at city level.
Completed Module 1 of the EU Climate Action Academy, focused on engaging citizens in climate action and fostering behavioural change.
The gap between climate policy ambition and public engagement, particularly the challenge of translating climate goals into meaningful behavioural change at community and societal levels.
