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The Media and Climate Change Observatory (MECCO) project, which tracks newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming on a monthly basis, was recently awarded $2,000 by The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The funding will support the systematic monitoring of media coverage of climate change in fifty sources across twenty-five countries around seven regions of the world.
MeCCO aggregates, monitors, and appraises media representational practices that influence the spectrum of possibility for effective responses to ongoing climate challenges.
Considerations of who speaks for the climate and how through variegated media communications are increasingly viewed to be as important to the long term success (or failure) of efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change as formal science-governance architectures themselves. The project’s research objectives continue to be to provide systematic monitoring of ebbs and flows of media attention to climate change over time and across geographic contexts, and to develop open-source database/archives of media coverage of climate change in order to provide a vitally important platform for a range of research endeavors to follow regarding how and why media attention shapes science-policy inquiries and endeavors. Media coverage is a critical input into politics, policy and environmental governance around the world.
