Climate Media Ecosystem

This year, Civic Studios has been experimenting boldly and intentionally with how climate stories are told, who they reach, and where they live. Instead of only focusing on climate crisis narratives, our work centers stories of resilience, adaptation, and just transition, meeting people where they already are: classrooms, social media, radio, and mainstream films and TV shows.

Together, these experiments form what we call Our Climate Media Ecosystem, a multi-platform approach to climate storytelling designed for scale and impact.

Children’s Animation

Civic Studios has begun adapting successful Indian children’s environmental books into short animated films, designed specifically for classroom viewing.

The first pilot adapts Miracle on Kachua Beach, a story inspired by the Versova Beach clean-up movement. The film introduces children to themes of empathy and care for nature,importance of clean beaches for people and marine life, and leadership and collective action.

This pilot was screened in schools across Pune in partnership with AltEff and Youth Cosmo. Each screening was followed by a bespoke engagement session designed by Civic Studios, helping test how animated climate storytelling can spark discussion and awareness among young learners.

Audience: School-going children
Format: Short animated (AI) film
Distribution: Partner schools, NPO’s, EdTech
Festival Recognition: Jury Special Mention at AIFF and IFFI Goa 2025; Official Selection at Kids First Film Festival, Goa Short Film Festival, and Himachal Short Film Festival.

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Edtech Integrations

To reach children at scale, Civic Studios is working with leading Indian EdTech platforms to integrate positive environmental messaging directly into their learning ecosystems.

Through partnerships with such platforms that reach millions of young children, climate positive values are woven into everyday learning experiences not as add-ons, but as part of stories, characters, and play.

Audience: Early learners across India
Format: In-app storytelling & learning content
Distribution: EdTech platforms

Rural Radio – Haat Baat

Civic Studios team developed Haat Baat, an audio storytelling series that highlights successful stories of resilience and climate action from rural India.

The series focuses on locally rooted solutions from farming practices to water management told in familiar voices and languages.

Haat Baat is distributed by Graam Vaani, a nonprofit with a rural radio reach of over 12 million listeners across North India.

Audience: Rural communities
Format: Audio stories & radio programming
Distribution: Community and rural radio networks, IVR Platforms

Climate Don’t Change (Cdc)

Climate Don’t Change is Civic Studios’ Instagram based digital community focused on making climate action feel everyday, doable, and relatable. The platform curates empowering local stories, practical nudges, and bite-sized insights cutting through anxiety fuelling climate narratives to show what constructive climate action can be.

Audience: Urban & digital-first audiences
Format: Short-form social content
Platform: Instagram

Social Media Climate Fund

Through a Social Media Fund via pooled philanthropic funding, Civic Studios will provide grants to social media creators and influencers to produce climate-positive content.

By supporting creators who already speak to large, engaged audiences, we enable constructive climate narratives to travel organically across platforms like Instagram.

Audience: Social media users
Format: Influencer-led content
Platforms: Instagram

Climate Media Fund

Civic Studios has announced a GBP 1 million (approximately INR 10 crore) Climate Media Fund, created through pooled philanthropic funding.

The fund provides grants to leading Indian studios, film producers, and streamers to integrate climate messaging into mainstream films and series.

Inspired by traditional product placement models, this approach embeds climate change linked themes and solutions at a dialogue, scene, or plot level, guided by climate scientists and media experts ensuring accuracy without compromising storytelling.

Audience: Mass entertainment audiences
Format: Films, TV & OTT series
Approach: Climate-integrated storytelling

Why This Matters

Climate narratives shape climate action. By expanding where and how these stories are told from children’s classrooms to blockbuster screens, Civic Studios is building an ecosystem where climate action feels relatable, possible, and collective.

This year’s work is experimental by design, laying the groundwork for scalable, culturally rooted climate media for the years ahead.