{"id":1998,"date":"2016-03-07T21:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2016-03-07T21:14:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:14:34","slug":"why-did-paris-climate-summit-get-less-press-coverage-than-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2016\/03\/07\/why-did-paris-climate-summit-get-less-press-coverage-than-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Paris Climate Summit Get Less Press Coverage Than Copenhagen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Climate Home<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
\nMarch 7, 2016<\/p>\n

by Alex Pashley<\/p>\n

Paris excelled where Copenhagen bombed. It clinched a universal pact to tackle climate change.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the world\u2019s media were apparently less impressed.<\/p>\n

A research group at the University of Colorado Boulder\u2019s tracking of newspaper coverage<\/a> of climate change showed where COP15 waxed, COP21 waned.<\/p>\n

It crunched articles written by 50 titles across 25 countries, from the UK\u2019s Financial Times, Spain\u2019s El Pais to Zimbabwe\u2019s Herald.<\/p>\n

Copenhagen\u2019s spike in December\u00a02009 (714 articles) is a third\u00a0higher than Paris summit in December 2015 (534), the data shows.<\/p>\n

Why the decline? I spoke with Max Boykoff, acting director of the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the university.<\/p>\n

Context is crucial<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2009, Obama\u2019s bid to turn climate saviour drummed up interest.<\/p>\n

The new US president\u2019s role in intervening to salvage the talks generated a \u201ctremendous amount of unbridled enthusiasm\u201d, says Boykoff.<\/p>\n

The summit also came weeks before the \u201cClimategate\u201d affair.<\/p>\n

Hackers exposed email exchanges that they claimed showed scientists at the University of East Anglia manipulated data to bolster the existence of man-made climate warming.<\/p>\n

Sceptics leapt on it as proof global warming was a conspiracy; subsequent inquiries found no evidence of misconduct. It generated lots of heat nonetheless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose two examples definitely provided hooks and ways to frame stories,\u201d adds\u00a0Boykoff, who has written a book<\/a> on media discourse on climate change.<\/p>\n

At the Copenhagen conference itself, the talks broke down in acrimony between developed and developing countries \u2013 providing plenty of drama.<\/p>\n

The 2015 summit went far smoother, by contrast. Years of diplomacy had created a more trusting atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Boykoff says: \u201cThere was a much more sophisticated and complex treatment in the press and in addition there wasn\u2019t this conflict frame that was readily apparent in the build-up [in 2009]\u201d. Read more …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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