This guide looks at the following six steps that you can take to begin a behaviour change project to tackle climate change in your community.

Step 1: Before you do anything else, think precisely about the behaviour that you are trying to change – what, who, where, when, how?

Step 2: Understand what is driving the current behaviour.

Step 3: Choosing your intervention.

Step 4: I know what is driving the behaviour. I know what intervention types I could use. How do I put them together?

Step 5: What happens if you end up with too many options, and you cannot choose between the intervention types?

Step 6: How can you measure whether your intervention has worked?

How can we apply this six-step guide to our local climate behavioural challenges?

A series of climate change behavioural challenges can be found in this resource. Each will need to be modified for your local behavioural diagnosis and context, but they provide a starting point for thinking about the behaviour that you want to change, the questions you may wish to consider in your behavioural diagnosis, and examples of interventions to set you well on your way to making local changes.

The behaviours include those which we can change in our own homes, in the community, consumption, and travel. It is a not a comprehensive list of green behaviours but using the format, you can hopefully apply it to any behaviour that you wish to change.

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