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Thematic framework

The climate crisis does not arrive in categories.

Our five lenses help us work across the systems that shape resilience, opportunity and public action.

Adapt01

Climate Adaptation & Resilience

Locally led and ecosystem-based approaches that help communities and institutions prepare, respond and thrive under changing climate conditions.

Related: ACTIVATE
Include02

Climate Justice & Social Inclusion

Gender equality and social inclusion are embedded across programme design, participation, evidence and learning—not treated as an afterthought.

Related: CAP25
Translate03

Knowledge & Innovation for Sustainability

Creative media, virtual reality, gamification and accessible knowledge products that help scientific insight travel further.

Related: CLARE
Finance04

Climate Finance & ESG Integration

Climate finance literacy, responsible enterprise and practical support for organisations moving toward greener, more resilient models.

Related: EPICC
Govern05

Policy & Governance

Stronger national and local climate frameworks built through usable evidence, informed dialogue and institutional collaboration.

Related: Climate & Health
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How the lenses connect

No single discipline can hold the whole answer.

A resilient community needs policy that works, finance that reaches it, evidence it can trust and meaningful inclusion in the decisions affecting it.

That is why BTS programmes deliberately cross thematic boundaries. The lens changes; the commitment to useful knowledge remains.