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Building a Climate‐Literate Workforce: Impacts of a Comprehensive Public Utility Climate Change Education Program

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  • Jan E. DeWaters
  • Ingrid Zabel
  • Allison M. Chatrchyan
  • Stephen Bird
  • Susan E. Powers

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Combating climate change demands broad societal understanding and action. A key question is how effectively the private sector can enhance their employees' climate knowledge, attitudes, and actions to advance their corporate sustainability goals. Our paper presents the development and assessment results of a comprehensive, science‐based climate change education program for all employees at a large U.S. public power utility. A robust pre‐post climate literacy survey of participants included attention to variables that contributed to the program's success, which helps to fill a gap in the literature by demonstrating demographic‐dependent improvements in climate literacy. Results of the quasi‐experimental assessment demonstrate the overall effectiveness of the initiative for increasing participants' climate knowledge (+12.7%, p

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  • Jan E. DeWaters & Ingrid Zabel & Allison M. Chatrchyan & Stephen Bird & Susan E. Powers, 2025. "Building a Climate‐Literate Workforce: Impacts of a Comprehensive Public Utility Climate Change Education Program," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 32(4), pages 4847-4860, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:corsem:v:32:y:2025:i:4:p:4847-4860
    DOI: 10.1002/csr.3217
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