Climate Storytelling & Impact Ecosystem

Great climate storytelling doesn’t happen in isolation. It takes researchers, funders, broadcasters, production companies, campaigners and industry organisations working together to support creators at every stage of the process. 

Collaboration matters because climate change touches every genre, format and audience. The Climate Content and Storytelling Ecosystem brings together collaborators who share a common goal: helping the screen industry tell compelling stories that reflect the realities of climate change and engage audiences through authentic, entertaining content. 

Together, we’re building the connections, inspiration and support that make climate storytelling a natural part of screen content, making it more accessible and more impactful across television, film and digital media. 

Discover the ecosystem
Climate Spring
Climate Spring is a global organisation dedicated to shifting our cultural response to the climate crisis by transforming how it is represented in film, TV and popular culture. We support the screen industries through scripted and unscripted development funding, editorial consulting on climate narratives, training and world-building workshops, writers' labs and bespoke advice from idea to distribution. To date, Climate Spring has supported more than 100 film and TV projects across genres. Climate Spring is also home to the Climate Fiction Prize, co-founder of the Climate Playwriting Prize, and a campaign partner of Green Rider.
Climate Spring is a global organisation dedicated to shifting our cultural response to the climate crisis by transforming how it is represented in film, TV and popular culture. We support the screen industries through scripted and unscripted development funding, editorial consulting on climate narratives, training and world-building workshops, writers' labs and bespoke advice from idea to distribution. To date, Climate Spring has supported more than 100 film and TV projects across genres. Climate Spring is also home to the Climate Fiction Prize, co-founder of the Climate Playwriting Prize, and a campaign partner of Green Rider.
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Green Rider
Green Rider is an artist-led movement shifting our industry away from pollution and waste to cleaner and fairer ways of working. Backed by BAFTA Albert and Equity, our Green Handshake opens collaboration between artists and production teams, laying out actions they can take together to upgrade their impact. Used by actors including Olivia Colman, Paapa Essiedu, Benedict Cumberbatch, Helena Bonham Carter and Bella Ramsey, it has helped cut pollution by up to 80% on over 50 TV and film productions, including The Capture, Dune: Prophecy and Day of the Jackal.
Green Rider is an artist-led movement shifting our industry away from pollution and waste to cleaner and fairer ways of working. Backed by BAFTA Albert and Equity, our Green Handshake opens collaboration between artists and production teams, laying out actions they can take together to upgrade their impact. Used by actors including Olivia Colman, Paapa Essiedu, Benedict Cumberbatch, Helena Bonham Carter and Bella Ramsey, it has helped cut pollution by up to 80% on over 50 TV and film productions, including The Capture, Dune: Prophecy and Day of the Jackal.
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NESTA Greener Homes
Nesta's Greener Homes was established to tell stories about how the ways we heat and power our homes are changing. The concept of 'home' plays an important role in storytelling, particularly television narratives: in property shows, home renovation formats, dramas and soaps, and lifestyle programmes. How these stories are told will inevitably need to reflect the changes taking place in the home; as we adapt to climate change and consumer demand and government legislation shifts, our homes will become more energy efficient due to the way they are built or modified. Greener Homes offers resources like its Greener Homes Handbook, briefings and funding to producers and production companies, helping them generate compelling and human stories about one of the most significant transitions since the Industrial Revolution. By exploring themes such as community, skills and inclusion Greener Homes enables producers and content creators to tell stories about reducing domestic carbon emissions more creatively and more effectively.
Nesta's Greener Homes was established to tell stories about how the ways we heat and power our homes are changing. The concept of 'home' plays an important role in storytelling, particularly television narratives: in property shows, home renovation formats, dramas and soaps, and lifestyle programmes. How these stories are told will inevitably need to reflect the changes taking place in the home; as we adapt to climate change and consumer demand and government legislation shifts, our homes will become more energy efficient due to the way they are built or modified. Greener Homes offers resources like its Greener Homes Handbook, briefings and funding to producers and production companies, helping them generate compelling and human stories about one of the most significant transitions since the Industrial Revolution. By exploring themes such as community, skills and inclusion Greener Homes enables producers and content creators to tell stories about reducing domestic carbon emissions more creatively and more effectively.
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Heard
Heard is the award-winning charity which collaborates with the UK’s biggest media and pop culture organisations. It helps them to make stories that touch on complex issues more authentic and engaging. Heard draws on the expertise of people with first-hand experience and the latest evidence-based research. It supports storytellers working on subjects such as climate, poverty, inclusion, health and wellbeing. A lot of Heard's work focuses on moving away from trauma-heavy storytelling that overwhelms audiences – towards content that helps people understand experiences different from their own, and makes change feel possible.
Heard is the award-winning charity which collaborates with the UK’s biggest media and pop culture organisations. It helps them to make stories that touch on complex issues more authentic and engaging. Heard draws on the expertise of people with first-hand experience and the latest evidence-based research. It supports storytellers working on subjects such as climate, poverty, inclusion, health and wellbeing. A lot of Heard's work focuses on moving away from trauma-heavy storytelling that overwhelms audiences – towards content that helps people understand experiences different from their own, and makes change feel possible.
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Impact Wild
ImpactWild is an impact strategy organisation working with the film, television, and wider screen industries to help translate storytelling into measurable social and environmental outcomes. It supports broadcasters, production companies, and filmmakers to develop impact strategies, audience engagement approaches and nature-focused storytelling that can influence perceptions, behaviours, and systems. Through consultancy, impact production, training and research, ImpactWild helps embed sustainability and nature considerations both on and off screen. Its expertise sits at the intersection of screen production, nature conservation and behaviour change, connecting creative teams with partners, communities and evidence-based approaches that strengthen the screen sector’s contribution to nature-positive change.
ImpactWild is an impact strategy organisation working with the film, television, and wider screen industries to help translate storytelling into measurable social and environmental outcomes. It supports broadcasters, production companies, and filmmakers to develop impact strategies, audience engagement approaches and nature-focused storytelling that can influence perceptions, behaviours, and systems. Through consultancy, impact production, training and research, ImpactWild helps embed sustainability and nature considerations both on and off screen. Its expertise sits at the intersection of screen production, nature conservation and behaviour change, connecting creative teams with partners, communities and evidence-based approaches that strengthen the screen sector’s contribution to nature-positive change.
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OKRE
OKRE is the entertainment impact charity, working with the entertainment industries to harness the power of storytelling for positive social impact. We connect creatives with researchers, charities, people with lived experience, and subject-matter experts to develop compelling entertainment that is informed by evidence and grounded in real-world understanding. Through creative collaboration, we help creators tell richer, more authentic stories that can deepen understanding, challenge perceptions, and inspire meaningful conversations. We use research and evaluation to understand how entertainment influences audiences and to strengthen its potential for positive impact, sharing insights, frameworks and resources. Through a systems-change approach, we build the connections, collaborations, and conditions that make impactful entertainment possible.
OKRE is the entertainment impact charity, working with the entertainment industries to harness the power of storytelling for positive social impact. We connect creatives with researchers, charities, people with lived experience, and subject-matter experts to develop compelling entertainment that is informed by evidence and grounded in real-world understanding. Through creative collaboration, we help creators tell richer, more authentic stories that can deepen understanding, challenge perceptions, and inspire meaningful conversations. We use research and evaluation to understand how entertainment influences audiences and to strengthen its potential for positive impact, sharing insights, frameworks and resources. Through a systems-change approach, we build the connections, collaborations, and conditions that make impactful entertainment possible.
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Sustainable Entertainment Alliance
The Sustainable Entertainment Alliance is a U.S based consortium of world leading studios, streamers, and industry institutions dedicated to advancing sustainability initiatives through advocacy, education, and innovation while reducing the entertainment industry’s overall environmental impact. S.E.A. brings resources and engagement opportunities to entertainment professionals on and off screen. Known for tools like our Green Title Database, Benchmarking Reports, Green Production Guide, and more, we collaborate with global industry stakeholders to create a more sustainable future.
The Sustainable Entertainment Alliance is a U.S based consortium of world leading studios, streamers, and industry institutions dedicated to advancing sustainability initiatives through advocacy, education, and innovation while reducing the entertainment industry’s overall environmental impact. S.E.A. brings resources and engagement opportunities to entertainment professionals on and off screen. Known for tools like our Green Title Database, Benchmarking Reports, Green Production Guide, and more, we collaborate with global industry stakeholders to create a more sustainable future.
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The TV Foundation
The TV Foundation’s helps shape the way the TV industry works to make it open to all; a place where new perspectives, ideas and stories thrive. The year-round programmes, events and initiatives are built on 30 years’ experience of providing free-to-access career development opportunities and groundbreaking initiatives at the TV Festival. TV has the power to make us sit up and pay attention. We champion and connect the TV industry to put climate impact at the heart of all TV programmes. - Ignite: Climate Content Summit is an annual event for the latest expertise and inspiration on making climate stories mainstream. - Changemakers brings together ten TV leaders in a yearlong programme to put more and better climate stories on our screens.
The TV Foundation’s helps shape the way the TV industry works to make it open to all; a place where new perspectives, ideas and stories thrive. The year-round programmes, events and initiatives are built on 30 years’ experience of providing free-to-access career development opportunities and groundbreaking initiatives at the TV Festival. TV has the power to make us sit up and pay attention. We champion and connect the TV industry to put climate impact at the heart of all TV programmes. - Ignite: Climate Content Summit is an annual event for the latest expertise and inspiration on making climate stories mainstream. - Changemakers brings together ten TV leaders in a yearlong programme to put more and better climate stories on our screens.
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Think Film
Think-Film Impact Production is the world -leading impact media company translating cinematic storytelling into systemic and structural change for films' commercial and cultural success. Think-Film's work has changed and influenced 10+ laws and policies worldwide, including banning deforestation with National Geographic's THE TERRITORY, combating climate deception with Neon's THE END with Tilda Swinton, and stopping toxic forever chemicals with Participant's DARK WATERS starring Mark Ruffalo, which simultaneously created $10m social economic value and 85 million social media impressions ahead of its theatrical release.
Think-Film Impact Production is the world -leading impact media company translating cinematic storytelling into systemic and structural change for films' commercial and cultural success. Think-Film's work has changed and influenced 10+ laws and policies worldwide, including banning deforestation with National Geographic's THE TERRITORY, combating climate deception with Neon's THE END with Tilda Swinton, and stopping toxic forever chemicals with Participant's DARK WATERS starring Mark Ruffalo, which simultaneously created $10m social economic value and 85 million social media impressions ahead of its theatrical release.
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Together Films
Together Films is a BFI-backed international film sales and impact agency. Together Films is a BFI-backed international film sales and impact agency. We represent documentary and narrative films with the potential to reach audiences beyond the festival circuit, working across commercial sales and impact distribution strategy. We support filmmakers to build campaigns that connect with affected communities, advocates, and the general public. Many of the titles on our slate address environmental and sustainability themes directly. We also run the BFI Business of Impact Lab, a professional development programme for the screen industry.
Together Films is a BFI-backed international film sales and impact agency. Together Films is a BFI-backed international film sales and impact agency. We represent documentary and narrative films with the potential to reach audiences beyond the festival circuit, working across commercial sales and impact distribution strategy. We support filmmakers to build campaigns that connect with affected communities, advocates, and the general public. Many of the titles on our slate address environmental and sustainability themes directly. We also run the BFI Business of Impact Lab, a professional development programme for the screen industry.
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