Spring 2025

Speaking on Climate

A Guide to Speechwriting for a Better Future

  • Interest Level: Grade 6 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 8

What makes a good speech? Better yet, what makes an effective speech?

A speech can inform, entertain, educate. But effective speeches inspire an audience to act and build a sense of community. The climate crisis is a pressing issue, and the ability to successfully communicate about it is crucial to bring people together to make meaningful change.

Discover how to stand up, speak your mind, and encourage your audience past climate silence. By analyzing speeches and how they worked, social anthropologist and professional speechwriter Rune Kier Nielsen breaks down nine common flaws of climate rhetoric and how to fix them in this thorough, engaging guide to speechwriting toward climate action.

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Interest Level Grade 6 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 8
Genre Young Adult
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Active Nonfiction, 5KN: Traditional Nonfiction
Copyright 2025
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Zest Books ™
Language English
Number of Pages 200
Publication Date 2025-04-15
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS YAN044000, YAN058000, YAN050080
Dewey 808.06/65
Dimensions 5.5 x 8.25
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Bibliography/further reading, Index, Primary source quotations/images, Source notes, and Table of contents

Author: Rune Kier Nielsen

Rune Kier Nielsen is a social anthropologist living in Denmark. He has worked as a government speechwriter for mayors in the Danish Capital of Copenhagen, the Danish Ministry for Climate and Energy as well as the Ministry for the Environment. He’s won two of the prestigious Cicero Speechwriting Awards while also writing for activists and idealists as part of the Danish Climate Movement and TEDx. He is currently the Climate Action Communication Coordinator for the United Nations Environment Programme—the UN’s authoritative voice on the environment.