Open letter to COP30: Use storytelling to fight climate crisis

Neil Addison, Professor, Department of Humanities and Culture, Japan Women's University, and CoSciLit Regional Representative for Asia (Japan)

Hugh Adlington, Professor of English Literature

Dawn Airey CBE, Chair of The National Youth Theatre

Janna oud Ammerveld, Postdoctoral researcher in petrocultures and heritage, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Elizabeth Anderson, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen

Angela C. Antle, 2025 Rachel Carson Writer in Residence - LMU, Germany, ID PhD Candidate Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, GYRE podcast and NMBU Empowered Futures Scholar, Norway

Laura Day Ashley, Associate Professor of Education and Social Justice and College of Social Sciences Sustainability Lead

Enaiê Mairê Azambuja, Impact and Engagement Officer, Migrant Futures Institute, Goldsmiths, University of London

Ian Baker, Honorary Professor in School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Timothy C. Baker, Personal Chair in Scottish and Contemporary Literature, University of Aberdeen

Selçuk Balamir, Designer and Lecturer in Global Arts, Culture and Politics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

John Barnie, Poet

John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queen's University Belfast

Allan Beltran, Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Birmingham

Renan Bernardo, Author, Brazil

Brock Bersaglio, Associate Prof, Environment and Development

Emma de Beus, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University Belfast

Mike Bintley, Associate Professor in Medieval English Literature and Theme Lead for Culture, Environment and Sustainability, Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities

Isabelle Bishop, PhD candidate in Philosophy and Religion, The University of North Texas, USA

Sara Blair-Manning, Chief Executive, Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Nana O. Bonsu, Assistant Professor in Responsible Business & Sustainability

Elizabeth M Brunt MD, Emeritus Professor, Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Verity Burke, John Pollard Newman Fellow of Climate Change and the Arts, University College Dublin, Ireland    

Dorothy Butchard, Assistant Professor in Contemporary Literature and Digital Cultures

Brycchan Carey, Professor of Literature, Culture, and History, Northumbria University

Megan Cavell, Associate Professor of English Literature

Aleksandra Cavoski, Professor of Environmental Law

Dr. Henry Cham

Giulia Champion, Research Fellow, the University of Southampton

Jessica Chaplain, Assistant Professor in Communication, University of Georgia, USA

Lara Choksey, Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, UCL

Maurie Cohen, Professor of Sustainability Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Timothy Collins, Principal Research Artist, Collins and Goto Studio Glasgow, UK

Kyle Conway, Professor of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada

Rona Cran, Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century American Literature

Jonathan Davidson, Chief Executive, Writing West Midlands

Nicola Davies, Childrens Laureate For Wales

Isabel Davis, Research Theme Leader in Collections and Culture, Natural History Museum, London

Sharbendu De, Lens-based Artist, Academic & Writer and Founder, Decoding Anthropocene - a climate education program for South Asia Visual Storytellers

Steven Denison, Professor of Biology, Eckerd College, USA

Alice Denton, Postgraduate Researcher, Medieval Studies, University of Bristol

Rachel Dickinson, Master of the Guild of St George and Reader in English & Interdisciplinary Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University

Melissa Dickson, Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Queensland, Australia, and Secretary of the Commission on Science and Literature

M. Christine Benner Dixon, PhD, Author and Educator, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Mark Dixon, Environmental Filmmaker, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Eleanor Dobson, Associate Professor in Ninteenth-Century Literature

Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon

Frances Doran, Secondary English Teacher and Environmental Humanities MA student, University of Bristol

June Douglas, Professor of Humanities and Social Science, St. George's University, Grenada, and CoSciLit Regional Representative for North American and the Caribbean (Grenada)

Jonathan Drori CBE, Author and Hon. Prof. of Public Understanding of Science

Alistair Dutton, Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis    

Kirsty Edgar, Professor of Micropalaeontology and President of the Micropalaeontological Society

Sue Edney, Lecturer in English, University of Bristol

Prof Dr Sabine Eggers, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria

Ruthanna Emrys, Author

Danielle Endres, Professor of Communication, University of Utah, USA

Alan Ereira, Hon. Prof. of Practice, University of Wales, Trinity St David

Carrie Etter, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Bristol

Ewan Fernie, Chair of Shakespeare Studies and Fellow, Shakespeare Institute

Melissa FitzGerald, Executive Radio Producer, Ear Worm Productions.

Moira FitzPatrick, Regional Director, Natural History Museum, Zimbabwe

Sean Foley, Theatre and Film Director, Co-Director, Sustainable Entertainment

Councillor Jayne Francis, Birmingham City Council 

Ann-Christine Frandsen, Reader in Accounting, Birmingham Business School

Elizabeth Freestone, Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company                            

Chris Fremantle, Writer, Artist and Lecturer, Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Isabel Galleymore, Poet and Associate Professor in Creative Writing

David Gange, Associate Professor of History, University of Birmingham

Prof Azadeh Ganjeh, Performance Artist and Teacher, University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Ottersberg, Germany

Greg Garrard, Professor of Environmental Humanities, UBC Okanagan, Canada

Billie Gavurin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Birmingham

Sevda Geçen, Assistant Professor, Turkish Language and Literature, Bitlis Eren University, Türkiye

Stephen A. Geller, M.D., Emeritus Chairman and Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA

Reza Gholami, Chair of Sociology of Education

Julie Gilson, Professor in Asian Studies and the Environment

Barri J. Gold, Professor of Practice in English and Senior Fellow, Environmental Innovations Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Chair, British Society for Literature and Science

Julia Golding, Author, UK

Helen Goodman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bath Spa University, and Communications Officer, Commission on Science and Literature

Jamie Gorrod, MA researcher in English Literature, University of Bristol

Ameesha Green, Founder and CEO of The Book Shelf

S Grace Grothaus, Computational Media Artist and Researcher, Canada

Dr Adele Guyton, FNRS, UCLouvain, Belgium

Jenni G Halpin, Professor of English, Savannah State University, USA

Areeba Hamid, Co-Executive Director, Greenpeace UK

Jessica Hampton, Ecolinguist at University of Liverpool and member of the Climate Justice Universities Union

Alexandra Harris, Professor of English Literature, FRSL

Samantha Harvey, Author

Chris Haughton, Author

Dustin Hellberg, Assistant Prof of Creative Writing, University of The Bahamas, and CoSciLit Regional Representative for North American and the Caribbean (Bahamas)

Charlotte Hempel, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism

Helga Henry, Cultural Consultant, Helga Henry Ltd

John Holmes, President of the Commission on Science and Literature and Professor of Victorian Literature, University of Birmingham

Jeannie Holstein, Senior Lecturer, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University

Weiqi Hua, Assistant Professor in Energy Systems, University of Birmingham

David Hudson, Professor of Politics and Development, University of Birmingham

Brian Hurwitz, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King's College London 

Gabriella Iskra, MA Student, Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol

Robert Jackson, Chair in Tree Pathology and Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research

Alice Jenkins, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture, University of Glasgow

Daniel Mendes Jenner, Moderator, Journalist and Head of YOUNG forum, Germany

Toria Johnson, Associate Professor of Early Modern Literature

Balwant Kaur, Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice and Education

Ron Kellermann, Green Storytelling and Script Consultant, author of Hot Plot – Wie Spielfilme, Serien und Romane den Klimawandel erzählen (Hot Plot – How Film, TV and Fiction Tell the Climate Story)

Jeremy Kidwell, Associate Professor in Philosophical Theology

Barbara Kingsolver, Author

Jordan Kistler, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Strathclyde

Thomas Klein, Department of Media and Communication, University of Hamburg, Germany

Diane Krause, Anthony N. Brady Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology, and Cell Biology, Yale University, USA

Jule Kubica, Writer, Dramatic Adviser & Lector (Germany)

Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, Assitant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Stéphane La Branche, Scientific co-ordinator, International Panel on Behaviour Change, France

Chris Laoutaris, Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare

Sam Le Butt, Postgraduate Researcher in English Literature and Environmental Humanities at University of Bristol 

Barbara Leckie, Professor of English and Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture, Carleton University, Canada

Carenza Lewis, Professor for the Public Understanding of Research, University of Lincoln, and Fellow of Public Humanities, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

Miranda Lewis, Editor, Early Modern Letters Online, Faculty of History, University of Oxford

Else Liliani, Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Psychology, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia

Phyllida Lloyd, Film and Theatre Director and Producer

Caroline Lucas - Writer, Campaigner & former Green MP

Greg Lynall, King Alfred Chair in English Literature and co-director of the Literature & Science Hub research centre, University of Liverpool

Antonia MacDonald, Professor and Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, St George's University, Grenada

Allen MacDuffie, Associate Professor in English, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Prof Rob MacKenzie, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research

Alessio Mattana, Lecturer in English literature, University of Turin, and CoSciLit Regional Representative for Europe (Italy)

Will McCallum, Co-Executive Director, Greenpeace UK

Marina McDougall, Vice President, Experience & Engagement, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, USA

Anna McFarlane, James Murray Beatty Lecturer in Fantasy Literature, University of Glasgow

Bill Mckibben, Author

Sadaf Mehmood, Researcher, Teacher and Writer, Assistant Professor of English Literature, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Nany Mellon, Healing Story

Peter Morey, Chair in 20th Century English Literature

Jackie Morris, Artist

Pablo Mukherjee, Professor of Anglophone World-Literature, University of Oxford

Rachel Murray, Co-Director, Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol

Dr Megan Murray-Pepper, Module Convenor, UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education

Julia Myatt, Professor in Collaborative Education, School of Biosciences, and Academic Director of Sustainability Education

Chloe Naldrett, theatre producer, co-director Sustainable Entertainment

Laurice D. Nemetz, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Anjunct Professor, Pace University Pleasantville, USA

David Oakes, Actor

Chris Packham, Naturalist, broadcaster and campaigner

Jimmy Packham, Associate Professor in North American Literature

Katie J. Parsons, Children's Geographer in Climate/Environmental Education and Adaptation, Loughborough University

Ellie Peers, General Secretary of the Writers Guild of Great Britain

Giuseppe Pezzini, Tutor and Fellow in Latin, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Taylor Plimpton, Author, Essayist and Editor

Zack Polanksi, Leader of the Green Party

Isabel Jaén Portillo, Professor of Spanish, Portland State University, and CoSciLit Regional Representative for North American and the Caribbean (USA)

Jane Prophet, Professor of Art and Design and Transforming Lives Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University

Susan Kaye Quinn, Speculative Fiction/Solarpunk Author, USA

Aviva Rahmani, Ecological Artist

Lara Ratnaraja, Cultural Consultant

Emeritus Prof. Rupert Read, Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project and creator of the ’thrutopia’ concept.

Julia-Lena Reinermann, Research Associate in Environmental Sciences, Fern Universität in Hagen, Germany

Maike Sarah Reinerth, Researcher at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany) & Green Storytelling Initiative

Katharina Reschke, Writer, Germany

Emma Reynolds, Author and Illustrator

Lorna Robinson, Director of The Iris Project and Rumble Museum, Oxford

Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi, Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen

Janine Rogers, Reverend William Purvis Chair of English Literature, Mount Allison University, Canada

Abigail Rokison-Woodall, Deputy Director (Education) and Professor in Shakespeare and Theatre, Shakespeare Institute

Sascha Rose-Jungbauer, Artist and Research Associate, Hochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Terra Schwerin Rowe, Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, USA

Sharon Ruston, Chair in Romanticism, Lancaster University 

Adam Rutherford, Writer, Broadcaster and Fellow of Public Humanities, University of London, Lecturer in Biology and Society, University College London

Sir Mark Rylance, Actor

Shelley Sacks, Professor Emerita in Social Sculpture and Connective Practice, Oxford Brookes University

Jon Sadler, Professor of Biogeography

Emanuelle Santos, Associate Professor in Modern Languages

Michaela Giesenkirchen Sawyer, Associate Professor of Humanities, Utah Valley University, USA

Dan Sealey, Musician and Songwriter

Camille-Mary Sharp, Postdoctoral Associate, Western University, Canada

Hiroki Shin, Associate Professor in History of Energy and Environmental Humanities, University of Birmingham

Paul Smith, Professor Emeritus of Natural History, University of Oxford

Linda Speight, Departmental Lecturer School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) | Career Development Fellow Hertford College | University of Oxford

Sophie Spitters, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square, Assistant Professor in Literature, the Environment, and Climate Change, Mount Allison University, Canada

Tiffany Stern, Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, University of Birmingham

Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA, MAE, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham, Fellow of Public Humanities, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

Ana Sun, Author of Futures to Live By

Greta Sunn, MA researcher in Literature, University of Bristol

John Swords, Development Associate, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS), New York

Rachel Sykes, Associate Professor in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Laurence Talairach, Alexandre-Koyré Center and University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, CoSciLit Regional Representative for Europe (France)

Jasmine Tan, Part-Time Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham and CoSciLit Regional Representative for Asia (Singapore)

Will Tattersdill, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fantasy Cultures, Glasgow University

Marie Thévenon, Associate Professor of Anglophone Literature, Grenoble Alpes University (France)

Neil Thiese, Adjunct Professor of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA

Rachael Thomas, Chief Executive, Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Alison Tickell, CEO Julie's Bicycle, Convener of 'We Make Tomorrow, Culture at the Heart of Climate Action'

Benjamin Toth, Research Collaborator, University of Lisbon Centre for the Philosophy of Science, Portugal    

Marissa van Uden, Editor- in-Chief, Violet Lichen Books

Sami Ullah, Professor of Biogeochemistry and Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research

Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the National Museum of Ireland

Annalisa Volpone, Associate Professor in English Literature, University of Perugia, Italy

Ruth Wadsworth, MScR researcher in Global Environmental Challenges, University of Bristol

Erica Wagner FRSL, Fellow in Public Humanities, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

Harriet Walter, Actress

Matthew Ward, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature 

Marianne Wendt, writer-producer and professor of screenwriting at the Film University Babelsberg, Germany

Jennifer Wenzel, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA

Marc Eric Wessel, Script Editor, Potsdam, Germany

Terry Weston, Milliner

Anoma Wijewardene, Artist

Délice Williams, Associate Professor in English, University of Delaware, USA

Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton

Martin Willis, Professor, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University

David Wilson, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Strathclyde

Michael Wilson, UNESCO Chair in Storytelling  Education for Sustainability, Loughborough University

Sheena Wilson, Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

Emily Wingfield, Professor of English and Older Scots Literature 

Rita Wong, Poet and Associate Professor, Faculty of Culture and Community, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada

Sara Wood, Associate Professor in American Literature

Gillian Wright, Professor of English and Irish Literature    

Nicole Zabel-Wasmuth, Climate Story Consultant and Media Lawyer, PlanetNarratives