Abstract/Summary

Since the publication of the first edition of the Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication in 2015, the world’s coverage of climate change—both in terms of frequency and content—has changed substantially. This chapter builds on our initial exploration of global climate change coverage, and also focuses on key questions that arise in light of the growing coverage of climate change from our previous writing on this topic in 2014. Since then, coverage across social and digital media representation has become a burgeoning space that has significantly shaped public awareness and engagement with climate change.