Climate change is a threat multiplier for violence against children

Cuartas, Jorge; Bhatia, Amiya; Carter, Daniel; Cluver, Lucie; Coll, Carolina; Donger, Elizabeth; Draper, Catherine E.; Gardner, Frances; Herbert, Bess; Kelly, Orla; Lachman, Jamie; M'jid, Najat Maalla; Seidel, Frederique

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106430

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“…As the intensity and frequency of extreme climate and weather events increase, the co-occurrence of climate impacts on vulnerable populations also rises (AghaKouchak et al 2020, Ebi et al 2021, IPCC 2022. Extreme weather, water and food shortages, and disruption in critical services, among other climate impacts, can increase the risk for marginalized populations (Cuartas et al 2023). However, what remains empirically unexamined is whether and how the media in vulnerable countries portrays the interrelatedness of such issues.…”

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Vulnerable voices: using topic modeling to analyze newspaper coverage of climate change in 26 non-Annex I countries (2010–2020)

McAllister,

Vedula,

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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News media influence how climate change is represented, understood, and discussed in the public sphere. To date, media and climate change research has primarily focused on Annex I countries, or treated non-Annex I countries as a homogenous bloc, despite the global nature of climate change and its geographically uneven impacts. This study uses a mixed-method approach, combining machine learning (topic modeling), econometrics, and qualitative analyses, to investigate newspaper coverage of climate change in 26 non-Annex I countries. We compiled a dataset of 95 216 news articles (dated between 2010 and 2020 from 50 sources) in 26 lower-middle and upper-middle income non-Annex I countries. In line with previous research results, we find that most common topics represented are international governance of climate change, the economics of energy transitions, and the impacts of climate change. Advancing current research understanding, we also demonstrate heterogeneity in coverage between non-Annex I countries and discover that a country’s vulnerability to climate change is positively associated with the diversity of topics (based on an article-level entropy index) portrayed by its domestic news media outlets.

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