The appeasement effect of a United Nations climate summit on the German public

Brüggemann, Michael; Silva-Schmidt, Fenja De; Hoppe, Imke; Arlt, Dorothee; Schmitt, Josephine B.

doi:10.1038/nclimate3409

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“…In Germany, climate-change awareness of the public is quite high. Accordingly, we found in the quantitative survey data that both regions have a similarly high climate-change awareness, which does not differ from the average population in Germany (Brüggemann et al 2017). While 55% of the country's population agrees that "global climate change is a very serious problem", fewer than 20% feel "very concerned it will personally harm them during their lifetime" (Stokes, Wike, and Carle 2015).…”

Section: Similarities Between the Two Study Locationsmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…Arlt, Hoppe, and Wolling (2011: 52, 57) found that watching public news programmes in Germany predicted greater awareness, while reading weekly print media "had a slightly negative effect on problem awareness", indicating that media use does "not always have a motivating, awareness-heightening effect". A survey of the German public by Brüggemann et al (2017) showed limited effects of media coverage of annual UN climate summits on knowledge and attitudes, and no effect on the respondents' intention to act.…”

Section: Audience Reception Of Climate Change Coveragementioning

confidence: 97%

“…We decided to take a deeper look at COPs as transnational media events (Brüggemann et al 2017), because they raise media attention across national borders and, potentially, enable audiences to feel connected to each other as global citizens. Content analysis has proven that climate summits are main drivers of media attention to climate change worldwide (Schäfer, Ivanova, and Schmidt 2014).…”

Section: Desiderata and Research Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet few studies have explored the audience perspective during climate summits (Wonneberger, Meijers and Schuck 2020). Our research (see also Brüggemann et al 2017) was conducted during the COP 21 in Paris (2015), which is now seen as a key political event due to its role in renewing and extending the Kyoto Protocol by agreeing on the 1.5°C target (Hulme 2016). Therefore, COP 21 and its corresponding media coverage are not representative of climate summits in general.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…People negotiate the meanings and boundaries of a "place" (Glasze and Mattissek 2012;Agnew 2005). Yet, this is rarely reflected in communication studies (stated as desideratum by, e.g., Autischer and Maier Rabler 2017;Brüggemann et al 2017;Rodríguez Amat and Brantner 2016;Couldry and McCarthc 2004;Kleinsteuber and Rossmann 1994;Maier Rabler 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Section: Similarities Between the Two Study Locationsmentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Audience Reception Of Climate Change Coveragementioning

confidence: 97%