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Paper short abstract:

Examining climate perceptions, this paper bridges scientific knowledge and daily experiences. Using cultural anthropology, it explores collaborations by entities like Climate Leadership programs, addressing skepticism to enhance science-society relations through innovative communication.

Paper long abstract:

Global extreme weather events are daily media focal points connecting them to anthropogenic climate change. The urgency of the climate crisis sparks intensified discussions on actions and moral obligations. However, abstract scientific knowledge often lacks a link to everyday experiences, leading to divergent views on the crisis's historical basis and future projections.

This research explores the conflictual negotiation of the climate crisis, focusing on the intersection between everyday and scientific knowledge and the influence of generational perspectives. Engaged climate action, activism, and lobbyism play pivotal roles in bridging the gap between scientific knowledge, politics, and daily life. The paper investigates how governmental and non-governmental organizations, initiatives, and social movements collaborate to produce, transfer, and implement climate knowledge, with examples like Fridays for Future and Climate Leadership Programs activating climate-aware actors through knowledge dissemination, projects, and political engagement.

Adopting a cultural anthropological perspective, the research delves into how these entities produce and transfer climate knowledge. It explores how local actors integrate climate knowledge into daily life, addressing their needs for an uncertain energy future. Empirical methods, including interviews and participant observation, explore how local actors, in collaboration with social movements and climate leadership programs, navigate, negotiate, and pass on climate knowledge. The research addresses growing skepticism and trust issues in climate knowledge. By examining new forms of science communication and societal engagement, including social media campaigns, citizen assemblies, and societal activism, the paper aims to look at relations between science and society in the climate crisis context.