Co-Climate is a climate and culture storytelling platform exploring the connections between people, places, memory, identity, and environmental change. We believe climate change is not only a scientific or political challenge. It is also a cultural, emotional, and human experience that shapes how we live, relate, imagine, and create.

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Through media production, participatory storytelling, workshops, creative research, and community-based collaborations, Co-Climate creates spaces for dialogue, reflection, and collective imagination. Our work focuses on climate justice, migration, gender, cultural memory, and everyday experiences, bringing together diverse voices and stories that are often left outside mainstream climate narratives.

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Our Story

Co-Climate was founded by Aytül Yüksel, a climate storyteller, cultural producer, and community builder whose work bridges environmental issues, social narratives, and creative expression.

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The journey began with Defans, a creative communication company that developed sustainability-focused projects in collaboration with public institutions, NGOs, universities, and international organizations. Through campaigns, educational programs, participatory initiatives, and communication strategies, Defans explored how complex social and environmental issues could be translated into accessible, engaging, and community-centered narratives.

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Working at the intersection of sustainability, communication, and public engagement provided valuable insights into the limitations of conventional climate communication. While policies, reports, and technical expertise remain essential, meaningful change often begins when people can connect to these issues through stories, emotions, culture, and lived experiences.

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Building on this experience, Aytül founded İklimler Güzeldir ("Climates Are Beautiful"), a storytelling platform created to make climate conversations more accessible, human, and emotionally engaging. The project emerged from a simple observation: while climate change is often discussed through data, policies, and scientific reports, people connect through stories, memories, emotions, and everyday experiences. Through interviews, articles, events, and creative content, İklimler Güzeldir began exploring the human dimensions of climate change.

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As these conversations expanded internationally and new collaborations emerged across Europe, the need for a broader platform became clear. This evolution led to the creation of Co-Climate.

Today, Co-Climate serves as an international platform working at the intersection of climate, culture, media, and collective storytelling. It brings together creative practitioners, researchers, communities, educators, and organizations to develop participatory projects, media productions, workshops, and cultural initiatives that foster more inclusive and human-centered climate narratives.

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Our Vision

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We envision a future where climate conversations are not limited to experts and institutions, but are shaped by communities, lived experiences, cultural knowledge, and collective imagination.

By connecting storytelling, creativity, and participation, Co-Climate seeks to build new pathways for understanding climate change and imagining more just, connected, and resilient futures.