Media attention and its impact on corporate commitment to climate change action

2021 ◽  
pp. 127833
Author(s):  
Mohammad Tavakolifar ◽  
Ayishat Omar ◽  
Tesfaye T. Lemma ◽  
Grant Samkin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Corporate Commitment

scholarly journals Stakeholder pressures on corporate climate change-related accountability and disclosures: Australian evidence

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamima Haque ◽  
Muhammad Azizul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Climate Change Information ◽  
Environmental Disclosures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Stakeholder Pressures

This study investigates stakeholder pressures on corporate climate change-related accountability and disclosure practices in Australia. While existing scholarship investigates stakeholder pressures on companies to discharge their broader accountability through general social and environmental disclosures, there is a lack of research investigating whether and how stakeholder pressures emerge to influence accountability and disclosure practices related to climate change. We surveyed various stakeholder groups to understand their concerns about climate change-related corporate accountability and disclosure practices. We present three primary findings: first, while NGOs and the media have some influence, institutional investors and government bodies (regulators) are perceived to be the most powerful stakeholders in generating climate change-related concern and coercive pressure on corporations to be accountable. Second, corporate climate change-related disclosures, as documented through the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), are positively associated with such perceived coercive pressures. Lastly, we find a positive correlation between the level of media attention to climate change and Australian corporate responses to the CDP. Our results indicate that corporations will not disclose climate change information until pressured by non-financial stakeholders. This suggests a larger role for non-financial actors than previously theorized, with several policy implications.

scholarly journals The uncertainties of climate change in Spanish daily newspapers: content analysis of press coverage from 2000 to 2010

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. A02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Lopera ◽  
Carolina Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Uncertain Science ◽  
Selection Of

This paper explores media coverage of climate science through a selection of Spanish newspapers (El País, El Mundo, ABC, Expansión and Levante). We selected a stratified random sample of 363 items to be studied for eleven years (2000-2010). Content analysis allowed us to find out media attention paid to climate science, prevalence of informative tables, evaluation and characterization of news, as well as the presence of questioning or rejection of climate change. According to main results, press coverage of climate science in Spain was mainly focused on the consequences rather than on the causes or natural sources, and media attention paid to it was limited. Overlapping with social and macroeconomic problems in the country also contributed to communication of climate science as a controversial and uncertain science through informative framings.

Lawyer Up

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Hill and
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Force Action ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Directors And Officers

Media attention has focused most intently on lawsuits seeking to force action to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and to hold fossil-fuel companies to account. Even if the courts fail to resolve the essential challenge of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, they will surely find themselves enmeshed in litigation for years over who pays for the damage. In courtroom after courtroom, judges will reach decisions that can contribute to or hinder resilience. This chapter explores how litigation over the harm caused by climate change impacts could offer greater clarity on who should pay for the damages and thereby spur decisions to invest in resilience on a large scale. As the severity and frequency of climate change-related damages grow, corporate directors and officers, architects, engineers, manufacturers, and others who have a duty to consider foreseeable harm and to manage the risk, will likely find themselves on the receiving end of litigation alongside fossil fuel companies and governments.

Measuring the level of corporate commitment regarding climate change strategies

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 626-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iordanis Eleftheriadis ◽  
Evgenia Anagnostopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Corporate Commitment ◽  
Management Commitment ◽  
Top Management Commitment

Purpose This study aims to examine the various climate change practices adopted by firms and develop a set of corporate indexes that measure the level of climate change corporate commitment, climate change risk management integration and climate change strategies adoption. Moreover, this study examines the relationship between the aforementioned indexes. The authors claim that there is a positive relationship between the adoption of climate change strategies, corporate commitment and risk management integration. The aforementioned indexes have been used to assess the largest companies in the oil and gas sectors. Design/methodology/approach To assess this study’s sample companies, a content analysis of their carbon disclosure project (CDP) reports for the years 2012-2015 was conducted. Finally, weights were assigned to the content analysis data based on the results of a survey regarding the difficulty of implementing each climate change practice included in the respective index. The survey sample included climate change experts who are either currently employed in companies that are included in the Financial Times Global 500 (FT 500) list, or work as external partners with these companies. Findings The present study results highlight the need for developing elaborate corporate indexes, as the various climate change practices have different degrees of difficulty regarding their implementation. Additionally, a general trend in adopting climate change strategies is observed, especially in the field of carbon reduction strategies, which mainly involve the implementation of low carbon technologies. Finally, a positive and significant relationship was found between carbon reduction targets, risk management integration and climate change strategies. Practical implications Although international research has extensively examined the importance of managers’ perceptions on environmental issues as an enabling factor in developing environmental strategies, according to the results of our survey, corporations must go beyond top management commitment towards climate change to be able to successfully implement climate change strategies. Incorporation of climate change risk management procedures into a company’s core business activities as well as the establishment of precise carbon reduction targets can provide the basis on which successful climate change strategies are implemented. Originality/value Most studies address the issue of climate change management in terms of environmental or sustainability management. Furthermore, research on climate change and its relationship with business management is mainly theoretical, and climate change corporate performance is measured with aggregate indexes. This study focuses on climate change which is examined from a five-dimensional perspective: top management commitment, carbon reduction targets, risk management integration, carbon reduction and carbon compensation strategies. This allows us to conduct an in-depth analysis of the various climate change practices of firms.

scholarly journals Modeling the Impacts of Corporate Commitment on Climate Change

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 495-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Boiral ◽  
Jean-François Henri ◽  
David Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Corporate Commitment

scholarly journals Media and the Climate Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Risto Kunelius ◽  
Anna Roosvall
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Climate Crisis

Abstract Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has increasingly been framed as a climate crisis. This introductory essay maps these recent developments and elaborates the conceptual potentials and limitations of the “crisis” frame. It also briefly reviews the state of the art of media research and situates the contributions of the issue into this landscape.

Trends and patterns in sustainability-related media coverage: A classification of issue-level attention

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 937-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Barkemeyer ◽  
Philippe Givry ◽  
Frank Figge
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Financial Econometrics ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

Sustainability has moved from fringe topic to headline news and key policy discourse in its own right. Yet, the sustainability discourse remains fragmented, with a diverse set of challenges receiving vastly different levels of attention. Nevertheless, the vast majority of previous studies have focused on media attention to climate change, whereas other sustainability challenges have received much less attention in the academic literature. In this paper, we explore trends and patterns in media coverage across a set of ten sustainability challenges. In particular, we are interested in the extent to which the recent trends and patterns in coverage that have been well-documented for climate change are reflected by other sustainability challenges. We utilise a sample of 23 broadsheet newspapers from five different countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, UK, US), covering a 17-year period from 2000 to 2016. Using the agenda-setting literature as a starting-point for our enquiry, we then turn to the toolset provided by financial econometrics to develop a basic typology of media attention focusing on the two dimensions information/noise and seasonality/non-seasonality. We find that media coverage on climate change, poverty and HIV/AIDS can mainly be characterized as information, whereas the remaining seven issues included in our study appear noise-driven. Seasonal patterns in coverage appear most pronounced for socioeconomic issues. Media attention to biodiversity and cleaner technologies has been crowded in by increased coverage on climate change. At the same time, we find clear divergences from overall trends and patterns at the level of different countries and individual newspapers.

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