Research on long-term media coverage of environmental issues has focused predominantly on English-speaking industrialized countries and on single isolated topics. This presentation gives some highlights from a study of the Finnish newspaper coverage of climate change from 1990–2014. The coverage of climate change had three distinctive peaks, influenced by several factors including international climate policy negotiations, domestic energy debates, and mild and snowless winter weather.

1. Long-term media coverage of climate
change: 25 years of newspaper reporting
in Finland
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Dr. Jari Lyytimäki
Finnish Environment Institute
(SYKE)

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5. Sources & additional information
See the papers:
● Lyytimäki J. (2015). Prospects for
environmental communication based on 25
years of newspaper coverage of climate
change and eutrophication in Finland.
Applied Environmental Education &
Communication 14(4): 246-255. DOI:
10.1080/1533015X.2015.1109486
● Lyytimäki, J. (2012). The environment in the
headlines: Newspaper coverage of climate
change and eutrophication in Finland.
Monographs of the Boreal Environment
Research 42/2012. Edita Prima Ltd, Helsinki.
72. p. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/37007
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