About the Project

global conversation

This project concerns the interaction between two complex policy issues. In October 2004 the UK government published an international energy strategy designed to address the challenge of maintaining secure global energy supplies and mitigating the potentially catastrophic impact of climate change. The lead department responsible for pursuing the strategy internationally, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Environment), have engaged IFF to help them articulate and communicate the complexities of the international strategy to others, within and beyond government in the hope that this will promote a higher quality of dialogue around these issues as a result.

Partners

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Global Opportunities Fund

Drawing on the expertise of IFF Member Bob Horn (see www.stanford.edu/~rhorn), IFF have developed a suite of knowledge maps representing elements of the international strategy relating to climate change and energy security. These are due to be finalised and put into use later in the year, when we will also be undertaking an evaluation of this use of visual language within the system. IFF’s longer term ambitions are to use visual language as a tool in pursuing a more productive and effective international dialogue around these looming issues.