Info Webinar: The Psychology of Climate & Biodiversity Transformation
The Psychology of Climate & Biodiversity Transformation
A Framework for Understanding, Diagnosing, and Strengthening Transformation Capacity
About the Session
Climate and biodiversity transformation is often approached through policy, finance, technology, governance, and communication. While these dimensions are essential, many transformation efforts continue to struggle with recurring challenges such as weak cooperation, implementation gaps, declining trust, decision paralysis, stakeholder fatigue, and limited long-term resilience.
Increasingly, practitioners across governments, businesses, civil society organizations, philanthropic institutions, international organizations, and community initiatives encounter similar questions:
Why do well-designed strategies fail to translate into action?
Why does cooperation break down despite shared goals?
Why do organizations struggle to sustain momentum over time?
And what conditions help transformation efforts succeed?
This interactive webinar introduces the ClimateMind Framework for Psychological Infrastructure, a new framework that helps explain why transformation systems succeed, stall, or break down.
Rather than focusing on individual behavior change alone, the framework examines the psychological conditions that shape cooperation, trust, decision-making, implementation, agency, legitimacy, and resilience across transformation systems.
Together, participants will explore recurring transformation challenges, the psychological dynamics that drive them, and practical approaches for strengthening transformation capacity across different contexts.
What to Expect
A practical and interactive 90-minute webinar combining:
framework introduction
reflection and exchange
live application exercises
discussion of real-world transformation challenges
opportunities for questions and dialogue
This is not a purely academic presentation. The session is designed to help participants apply psychological insights to their own work and transformation contexts.
Themes Explored
Why climate and biodiversity transformation often stalls despite ambition
The concept of Psychological Infrastructure
The 6 Infrastructure Challenges of Transformation
The 9 Psychological Domains shaping transformation outcomes
Design Mechanisms for strengthening transformation capacity
Different pathways into transformation
Applying the framework in practice
Who This Is For
This session is designed for:
Governments and public institutions
International organizations and UN actors
Corporate sustainability and transformation professionals
Philanthropic organizations and funders
Civil society organizations and NGOs
Climate/biodiversity finance institutions
Researchers and think tanks
Community leaders and facilitators
No prior knowledge of psychology is required.
What You Will Get Out of It
Participants will leave with:
a practical framework for understanding transformation challenges
a structured approach for diagnosing recurring bottlenecks
insights into the psychological dynamics shaping cooperation and implementation
practical ideas for strengthening transformation capacity
opportunities to connect with others working on similar challenges
access to the ClimateMind Framework and related resources
Format
Interactive Info Webinar
Including:
Presentation
Reflection Exercises
Live Application Examples
Q&A and Discussion
Location
Online via Zoom
Duration
90 Minutes
Hosted by: Janna Hoppmann (ClimateMind)
Psychologist, Founder of ClimateMind, and developer of the ClimateMind Framework for Psychological Infrastructure for Climate & Biodiversity Transformation.