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CASE STUDY

Why climate social movements are heating up

High performing explainer from US think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the latest trends in climate and environmental activism

Understanding the Future of Global Climate Movements

Street art mural on a concrete wall featuring a rainbow-colored NASA logo with three historic astronaut figures, a yellow sun, and a series of black and white protest images including police officers and climate change signs.

This animation and archive based explainer has achieved 248k in its first two weeks with a small promotional spend.

Sketch Films was commissioned by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to produce an explainer on environmental and climate activist trends globally. This film was released on the Carnegie Explains Youtube channel.

This involved working with extensive archive footage, pieces to camera and then a distinct graffiti counter culture type animation. As an explainer, this animation gives the audience an effective primer on the recent changes in climate activism.

Read the report here.

Client: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and advance peace.

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