CHAMPION SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE USAGE Climate Fresk – why it is urgent!

Climate Fresk is a French nonprofit organisation founded by Cédric Ringenbach in December 2018, with the aim of raising public awareness of the underlying causes of climate change and the urgency of the situation.

Participants will learn the basic science behind climate change in a three-hour workshop. The information presented comes from the reports by the IPCC, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which summarises the state of scientific knowledge on the impacts of and solutions to climate change.

To date, over 800,000 people have participated in Climate Fresk and the organisation has over 35,000 volunteers in 50 countries. The idea is for trained participants to play an active part in passing on this knowledge to others.

At Sodexo in Sweden, the first Climate Fresk workshop was held in May 2022. 13 managers participated, and Anna Burholm, Head of QHSE, was one of them.

“Strangely enough, I was actually quite pleased to see the anxiety in people’s eyes. It was as if the scales were falling from their eyes. The climate issue is complex, and Climate Fresk uses science to show what happens when greenhouse gas levels increase and why action is urgently needed. Since then, I have noticed even closer focus on climate and the environment,” says Anna Burholm.

The plan is to continue to disseminate the content of Climate Fresk so that more staff can increase their knowledge, making it easier to find and implement solutions that reduce climate impact.