Communicating Climate Change in Russia

Poberezhskaya, Marianna

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“…The usefulness of ANT as a method and theoretical framework is that it helps to identify the invisible boundaries where translation from one realm of knowledge is possible, but not always successful. This was the case in the Russian media landscape, where a general lack of interest in climate change (Poberezhskaya 2014(Poberezhskaya , 2016 was reflected in online networks which supposedly provide more opportunities to spread awareness of DT and climate denial. Likewise, in Canada, despite the presence of many more voices and a strong civil society dedicated to raising concerns about climate change, these actors remained on the margins of the dominant agenda-setting cycle.…”

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“…Climate change is not a central issue on the Russian media agenda (Poberezhskaya 2016). In Canada, the topic generated some attention between 2007 and 2009 (Tegelberg 2010) but has not been prioritised on the domestic news agenda either.…”

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“…In Russia and Canada, countries with comparable geographic and economic conditions, contrasting political systems and distinct climate news agendas, the DT story failed to penetrate the mainstream news agendas. This occurred even though climate journalism, in both nations, has featured a considerable degree of climate scepticism and denialism (Painter 2011, Gunster 2011, Poberezhskaya 2016. To demonstrate the usefulness of ANT for studying intermedia agenda-setting, we take these countries as two distinct entry points that allow us to retrace the steps in the DT story's diffusion within Canadian and Russian news media agendas.…”

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2017

Nordicom Review

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Focusing on a story exposing Donors Trust (DT) as a funding source for climate denial campaigns, we introduce actor-network theory (ANT) as a methodological tool for studying online intermedia agenda-setting. The DT story, unveiled by prominent British media in early 2013, had the potential to become a global media sensation. However, this did not occur in two distinct communication actor-networks, Russia and Canada, raising questions regarding climate change journalism and agenda-setting in contemporary networked news environments. This article takes a fresh approach to studying agenda-setting processes by using ANT to trace connections between national climate agendas, networks of power and sites of mediated information. By mapping ties between attributes of DT story actor-networks, it illuminates moments that preclude or facilitate intermedia agenda-setting in online media networks. This demonstrates ANT’s potential to help better understand processes of information dissemination in an era characterised by the exceptional interconnectedness of media landscapes.

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Tegelberg

2017

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“…Climate activists working through nongovernmental organizations in Russia have unsurprisingly—given the state's moves against groups connected to foreign interests—only had a modest influence on the policy process (Henry, ; Martus, ; Rowe, ). For its part, the media plays its own important, though often not fully independent, role in shaping “what the audience learns about climate” and revealing “how the state approaches the problem” (Poberezhskaya, , p. 3). None of these vectors of influence undermine the primacy of top‐level decision making, but collectively they show that climate remains an issue where both debate about policy options and the capacity to move it in certain directions exist outside the Kremlin.…”

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Climate history of Russia and the Soviet Union

Bruno

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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Russia and the Soviet Union bear great significance for global climate history, but scholarship on this region is still only beginning to develop as a field. While the historiographies of other geographical locations have matured over the past decade, works concerning Russia thus far have appeared in a piecemeal and somewhat disconnected fashion, not yet cohering in a systematic way. Instead, there exist several insightful threads in the environmental history literature on climate. Scholars have examined the history of climate science in Russia, extending from the research of the Academy of Sciences in the eighteenth century to the global thinking about climate change in the late twentieth century. Social scientists have explored the historical roots of Russia's contemporary climate policy. Disasters related to climate have long attracted the attention of historians, though newer works are more in tune with contemporary scholarship on vulnerability and risk. There has also been movement to analyze the varied experiences of the cold in Russia over the long haul. Making an asset out of its apparent lower stage of development, the field of Russian climate history has an opportunity to directly enter advanced scholarly conversations by focusing on the ubiquitous human experiences with climate. Doing so could allow Russian climate history to acquire a position as an innovator among global climate histories. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > World Historical Perspectives

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“…The literature on Russia and climate change is extremely limited in comparison to other large emitters such as the US, China and the EU. A small but growing number of studies have evaluated the development of Russia's climate policy, including the interplay between domestic politics and Russia's behaviour at the international level (Andonova & Alexieva, 2012;Henry & Sundstrom 2007;Henry & Sundstrom 2012), the influence of international climate politics on Russia's domestic position (Andonova, 2008), the framing of climate policy (Tynkkynen, 2010), media coverage (Poberezhskaya, 2016), and the role of scientific experts in policymaking (Wilson Rowe, 2013). A number of works have pointed to the role of industrial interests in shaping climate policy in Russia, including creating a support base for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (Andonova, 2008), and business interest in Joint Implementation projects (Korppoo, 2007).…”

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Russian industry responses to climate change: the case of the metals and mining sector

Martus

2018

Climate Policy

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Globally, the metals and mining sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change also poses significant challenges for the industry in a number of ways, including risks to infrastructure and equipment, transport routes and the cost of energy supplies. The sector is of particular importance to Russia, and yet very little is known about how the sector positions itself in relation to this important issue. This paper conducts an in-depth look at the response of the Russian metals and mining sector to climate change. It looks at the key actors, their willingness to engage with the issue of climate change, preferred policy options, and the strategies adopted to further their interests. The role of companies, prominent individuals and business associations is considered. The evidence suggests that while there is widespread acceptance of climate change as a phenomenon, there is significant variation within the sector, with some companies proactive on climate policy, and others more reluctant. Different responses are attributed to reputational factors and the disproportionate influence of international and domestic policy developments on companies. Russian coal companies, directly threatened by any international attempts to reduce coal consumption, display the strongest opposition to efforts aimed at curbing emissions. The Russian government, far from thinking of transitioning to a low carbon future, is vigorously trying to expand the coal industry. Key Policy Insights  Understanding how Russia's domestic position on climate policy is formed is fundamental for understanding the factors driving its international engagement on climate policy.  The Russian government has no plans to phase out coal, and is instead actively seeking to expand the coal industry. This highlights the obstacles to Russia's commitment to climate policy at both the domestic and international levels.  The socioeconomic consequences of climate policy for the Russian coal industry are a key consideration for the government, with some regions heavily dependent on the industry for employment and electricity generation.

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Communicating Climate Change in Russia

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