In this episode, Kaska Hempel explores the ideas behind the Narrating Change workshop - a creative experiment in using storytelling to bring community voices into climate adaptation policy-making.

You will hear from researcher and workshop lead Emma Yule, and community participant Luke Fraser who is based in Orkney. They share what they got out of the session, and reflect on their wider ideas of adaptation and resilience in our communities and how the current Scottish Government policy fits into the picture.

The workshop was delivered by SCCAN in partnership with King’s College London, and funded by KCL’s Impact Accelerator.

Credits:

Production, interviews, editing - Kaska Hempel

Resources:

Community Adaptation Routemap - Adaptation Scotland: https://adaptation.scot/take-action/community-climate-adaptation-routemap/

Preparing for climate impacts resources on SCCAN website: https://sccan.scot/climate-adaptation/

Scottish National Adaptation Plan 3 (SNAP3) explainer https://adaptation.scot/about/about-the-scottish-governments-national-adaptation-plan-snap3/

Climate Change Adaptation: A primer with Emma Yule on the Local Zero podcast: https://www.localzeropod.com/episodes/c2z1qopayyftugl6stj9cocguu9vsp

Luke Fraser’s “hats”:

https://www.aquatera.co.uk/

https://northronaldsaytrust.com/

https://www.scottish-islands-federation.co.uk/

Carbon Neutral Islands Project: https://cni.scot/

National Island Plan: https://www.gov.scot/publications/national-plan-scotlands-islands/

UK Met Office analysis of weather in Spring 2025 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/double-record-breaker-spring-2025-is-warmest-and-sunniest-on-uk-record