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ORLANDO, FL (Feb. 25, 2025) – According to AAA’s latest survey on autonomous vehicles, 13% of U.S. drivers would trust riding in self-driving vehicles –

Abstract. Reducing lifestyle carbon emissions is a critical component of decarbonizing society. However, people hold substantial misperceptions about the r

Many actors use strategic communications to impact media debates through targeted messages and campaigns, but the scale and diversity of online media content make it difficult to evaluate the impact of a particular message or campaign. In this paper, we present a new technique that leverages semantic similarity of actor messages and media content to quantify the change in media discourse after a particular message has been published. We demonstrate our approach by measuring the impact of press releases from environmentally-active organisations on social media discussions about climate change. Our results show a heavy-tailed distribution of responses to these strategic communications, suggesting that relatively few messages have a substantive impact on online discourse.

We review 50 studies on the impacts of climate activism. We present the existing evidence in a map of what we know about climate activism and its impa…

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “Understanding the policy features that affect Indians’ support for India’s 2070 net-zero goal” in the journal Climatic Change. In 2021, the Indian government announced the goal of net-zero carbon […]

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Climate change is an urgent threat to the people and places we love. Solutions to climate change exist, but we are held back by the lack of public and political will to successfully address the issue. Put simply, the primary barriers are social and psychological in nature. In this presentation, Dr. Matthew Goldberg discusses promising climate change communication opportunities, success stories, and tools for thinking about how we generate the understanding and motivation that is needed to address climate change. Dr. Matthew Goldberg is a Research Scientist and the Director of Experimental Research at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication at Yale University. His research focuses on persuasion, social influence, and strategic communication about climate change, renewable energy, and other urgent environmental, social, and political issues. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and scientific reports, and his research is regularly cited in prominent news outlets like the...