| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 106 === In Taiwan, mass media are the major channels for transmission of environmental information and knowledge to the general public. In recent years, climate change has become a widely discussed topic in Taiwan. Among the important issues being discussed and reported in the media include Kyoto Protocol, the Assessment Reports are published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Paris Agreement passed in 2015. It was also found that framing of the information may influence people’s reponses.
Research on framing in climate change (CC) news coverage has advanced substantially in recent decades. The main objective of this study is to find out how climate change news are framed in newspapers in Taiwan. Content analysis was employed as the research approach in this study. Four major newspapers in Taiwan from 2012 to 2016 were studied to examine their frames, together with numbers, patterns, fields, sources, locations, and environmental education goals.
Results showed that the coverage of climate change news reached a peak in 2015 because of the UNFCCC COP21, or Paris Climate Summit. Global climate change mitigation and adaptation plans and strategies were discussed and finally the Paris Agreement was passed in COP21. Thus, the “social progress” frame can be identified in the media reports, focusing on the environmental impacts of climate change and future trends. Moreover, the main source of climate change news in Taiwan was found to be the government. In terms of environmental education goals, “awareness” and “action” shared most of the goals. In addition, more articles emphasized mitigation instead of adaptation.
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