Innovating approaches and tools for advancing climate literacy in the Philippines: lessons from six city workshops in 2023 and 2024

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Abstract Enhancing climate literacy is critical to building climate resilience, with participatory approaches gaining traction among both researchers and practitioners working on bridging the gap between science, planning and action. This paper seeks to contribute to the discourse and practice of enhancing climate literacy in the Philippines by highlighting the participatory and innovative methods implemented and reflecting on the processes and outcomes of the workshop, titled ‘Training on Understanding the Latest Climate Science and Local Projections for Adaptation Planning.’ Organized by a team from the Manila Observatory under the USAID-funded Climate Resilient Cities Project, the workshop was carried out between 2023 and 2024 across six climate vulnerable Philippine cities. The climate literacy workshop aimed to enhance the capacity of local government and community stakeholders to articulate their climate narratives and create a clear and inclusive vision of their potential climate futures. To achieve this, the workshop incorporated innovative methods and tools to enhance local climate literacy: localized climate change-modified hazard maps to aid science communication, climate storylines to navigate uncertainty, the solutions framework from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) for a more comprehensive understanding of climate-resilient development, a modified business model canvas for simplifying resilience planning, automated weather station dashboard designs to target different age groups, and participant grouping by generation inspired by the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report. This paper presents how these tools and approaches were applied through workshop activities, as well as some of the outputs created by local participants. Participant feedback revealed their appreciation of the personalized approaches, especially the climate story exercise, which reflected intergenerational views on climate change, as well as the hands-on activities, including pitching for the business model canvas and designing their own weather dashboards. The workshop was highly effective in deepening participants’ understanding of climate science and its changes while offering informative, interactive learning experiences that made the complex subject matter more accessible. The delivery of these workshops to the six cities demonstrated its replicability and potential for scaling up, while making sure to use climate information specific to the city and adjusting activities to respond to the needs of the city.

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