Organizing Response to Climate Change by Mallory Flowers

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flowers37 — 2025-07-07 17:56:31 UTC

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Small Table Discussions: Report Back

flowers37 — 2025-07-16 18:18:40 UTC

What actions can we take as individuals (or at the collective level) to address some of the challenges we identified today? Share thoughts from your table discussions here!

Foster willingness of organizations to participate in climate action

2025-07-27 07:58:32 UTC

Researchers should develop entrepreneurial skills to be able to motivate companies to participate in such research projet or even take actions towards more engagement to tackle grand challenges (action research)

Focussing on collaboration

2025-07-27 07:59:29 UTC

Academia should develop more collaborative models with industry, focusing not only on gaining a competitive advantage. This will be key to tackling grand challenges. That can be diffused through teaching into practice. Furthermore, conducting case studies and bringing together regional businesses can demonstrate that collaboration is effective.

Co-creation with organizations

2025-07-27 08:00:13 UTC

Further apply to funding scheme that prioritize do-creation with organizations where there is a trade-off between the the expertise that can bring the researchers for the company and the data that can be collected

Insights

2025-07-27 08:01:18 UTC

Be open to dialogue with practitioners - leverage practitioner outlets, open dialogue with industry decision makers.

We discussed translating more "technical" data to the management conversation. It is really important to understand what other fields can provide and how that matters to management and policy makers

2025-07-27 08:02:11 UTC

Improving communication between academia, industry, and policy

2025-07-27 08:03:55 UTC

Communication between organisations, sectors and policy, especially across sectors, is a significant challenge. Scholars should become involved by teaching and publishing guidance for industry and policy. Further, scholars should study the intersection of organisational studies and policymaking more and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Our discussion summarised

2025-07-27 08:18:50 UTC

What can we do collectively as an academic community to become better at disseminating (i.e., sharing knowledge and best practices, different platform we can use to communicate intra (writhing academia) and inter (with industry, bad society at large))?
How can we engage and support middle managers in supporting the climate agenda within organisations (e.g., via different interactive games and experiments)?
How to effectively teach climate change (or the fundamentals of how to operate in the new environment of complex societal challenges) to students of all levels (current and future managers and leaders)?
How to incorporate silos knowledge, bridge and inform the industry (e.g., how to ensure that we continuously learn from each other, and build up on our knowledge)?
How to turn climate challenges into opportunities?
How to help companies to understand and effectively work with what goes beyond their “sight” (e.g., Scope 3 emissions, and the non-low hanging fruit, also perhaps an understanding of the entire (eco)system))?
How can companies understand the short, mid-, and long-term implications of the decision they make today?