New approaches to understanding the role of the news media in the formation of public attitudes and behaviours on climate change

Happer, Catherine; Philo, Greg

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“…114 The public rely on the news media to communicate and interpret climate change science, and to make sense of extreme weather events and assess actions by businesses and govern ments. 115,116 The first indicator enriches the methods deployed in 2017, providing a global overview of media coverage of health and climate change from 62 newspapers, which is then complemented with expanded in-depth analysis of three national newspapers-the New York Times (NYT) in the USA, Le Monde in France, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in Germany.…”

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The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

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Decreasing labour productivity, increased capacity for the transmission of diseases such as dengue fever, malaria, and cholera, and threats to food security provide early warning of compounding negative health and nutrition effects if temperatures continue to rise. Adaptation, planning, and resilience for health Global inertia in adapting to climate change persists, with a mixed response from national governments since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015. More than half of global cities surveyed expect climate change to seriously compromise public health infrastructure, either directly, with extremes of weather disrupting crucial services, or indirectly, through the overwhelming of existing services with increased burdens of disease (indicator 2.2). Globally, spending for climate change adaptation remains well below the $100 billion per year commitment made under the Paris Agreement. Within this annual spending, only 3•8% of total development spending committed through formal UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) mechanisms is dedicated to human health (indicator 2.8). This low investment in Panel 1: Progress towards the recommendations of the 2015 Lancet Commission on health and climate change In 2015, the Lancet Commission made ten policy recommendations. Of these ten recommendations, the Lancet Countdown is measuring progress on the following: Recommendation 1: invest in climate change and public health research Since 2007, the number of published articles on health and climate change in scientific journals has increased by 182% (indicator 5.2). Recommendation 2: scale up financing for climate-resilient health systems Spending on direct health adaptation as a proportion of total adaptation spending increased in 2017 to 4•8% (£11•68 billion), which is an increase in absolute and relative terms from the previous year (indicator 2.7). Health-related adaptation spending (including disaster response and food and agriculture) was estimated at 15•2% of total adaptation spend. Although this national-level spending is increasing, climate financing for mitigation and adaptation remains well below the US$100 billion per year committed in the Paris Agreement (indicator 2.8). Recommendation 3: phase out coal-fired power Coal consumption remains high, but continued to decline in 2017, a trend which is largely driven by China's decreased reliance and continued investment in renewable energy (indicators 3.2 and 3.3). The Powering Past Coal Alliance (an alliance of 23 countries including the UK, Italy, Canada, and France) was launched at the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December, 2017 (COP23), committing to phase out coal use by 2030 or earlier. Recommendation 4: encourage city-level low-carbon transition to reduce urban pollution In 2017, a new milestone was reached, with more than 2 million electric vehicles on the road, and with global per-capita electricity consumption for road transport increasing by 13% from 2013 to 2015 (indicator 3.6). C...

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“…The media is central to public understanding of climate change; it provides a key resource through which people make sense of climate change and assess the actions of governments to address it. [171][172][173][174] The media indicator (5.1) includes an analysis of global coverage of health and climate change in 62 newspapers from 2007 to 2018. For the 2019 Countdown report, this has expanded to include C P D (in its Chinese-language edition, Renmin Ribao).…”

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The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

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The next decade is likely to produce any number of global challenges that will affect health and health care, including pan-national infections such as the new coronavirus COVID-19 and others that will be related to global warming. Nurses will be required to react to these events, even though they will also be affected as ordinary citizens. The future resilience of healthcare services will depend on having sufficient numbers of nurses who are adequately resourced to face the coming challenges.

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“…Recent research by Happer and Philo (2016) exploring the multi-faceted nature of the interplay between media and audiences' attitudes and behaviours indicate that the content of media should not be marginalised. Whilst confirming that interpretations of media messaging are culturally specific, they found that media accounts which emphasise the uncertainty of climate science play a role in generating doubt amongst audience members, which often contributes to a tendency to deprioritise the issue of climate change.…”

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Meat consumption, behaviour and the media environment: a focus group analysis across four countries

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Wellesley

2019

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The livestock sector is a major driver of climate change, accounting for 14.5% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Population growth and rising prosperity are expected to see global consumption of meat rise by 76% by mid-century, a rate which is associated with significant social and environmental costs. There is therefore a compelling case for public measures to promote dietary shifts towards a more sustainable model, but little action has been taken at the international or national level. This article reports on an international study, with research conducted across the UK, US, China and Brazil, which examines the role the media might play in driving social change in this area. The study focused specifically on the negotiation of new information around meat consumption and climate change and its impacts on existing attitudes and behaviours. Findings indicate that perceptions and beliefs on climate change are culturally specifictending to reflect national political and social priorities -but are contextualised within individually constructed media environments. Key determining factors include assessments of trust and credibility in regard to scientists and other experts, perceptions of the role of government and questions of individual versus collective responsibility. These shape the parameters within which arguments about the impact of meat consumption upon climate change are received, and these responses interact with cultural and structural barriers and opportunities to shape the likelihood of behaviour change.

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New approaches to understanding the role of the news media in the formation of public attitudes and behaviours on climate change

Cited by 49 publications

References 27 publications

The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

Meat consumption, behaviour and the media environment: a focus group analysis across four countries

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