Climate change communication and social climate action

Climate change communication and social climate action

CES research team has been leading the environmental applied social and communication sciences. A worth mentioning example of the studies conducted on this field, was the study on climate change media coverage, in which news articles published in the RAS countries were in-depth content analysed. It was concluded that media tends to report climate change by using distant (e.g., future-focused) and outcome (e.g., threatening messages) framings, based on non-resilient, scientific and political narratives, whilst overlooking the role of civil society on adapting to climate change. Instead of promoting society’s climate action, media may be contributing to a widespread social apathy regarding climate change and the disengagement of individuals to environment-related matters.