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Issue Targeting Research

Market research seeks to uncover ways to reach the right people with the right message. Until now, our movement has examined audience interests through a narrow lens, primarily centered on climate change. Yet with so many organizations and campaigns focused on specific environmental issues, there is opportunity for research to inform and expand our work, and to better reflect these many missions. As the research in this workstream displays, this can be a powerful way to engage more people, more effectively in our movement.

An issue-based approach may help your environmental organization better target key audiences (demographically, ideologically), and reach them more compellingly – for a more inclusive movement, and a more efficient media spend.

This active research and development workstream aggregates insights from across environmental organizations as we collectively learn about environmental issue priorities from survey research and develop models for targeting.

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Environmental Issue Targeting Scores

The Innovation Hub has developed new target scores to identify and target people who prioritize specific environmental issues: air quality, clean energy, drinking water, public lands & waterways, oceans, and wildlife. Use these scores to target your environmental issue message to people who prioritize that environmental issue.
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Environmental Priority Survey

Who prioritizes which environmental issues? How does each environmental issue stack up against others within and beyond the environmental category? These are just some of the questions we sought to answer in this survey of issue priorities, including 11 environmental issues (e.g., drinking water, wildlife) alongside 23 other major issues of the day (e.g., healthcare, economy).
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We are in this together – and welcome your inquiries, contributions, and ideas.

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