A computational analysis of the media coverage of the European Parliament's ‘green' Designation on sustainable energy and climate change

IF 9.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114592

Ileana Zeler , Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat , Riasat Muhammad Amir

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Abstract

Energy is pivotal to the sustainable development agenda for 2030. In this context, nuclear energy emerges as a potential solution for renewable energy development and carbon dioxide mitigation. However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 exacerbated global energy concerns, leading to a surge in fuel prices and an economic slowdown, prompting the European Parliament to designate nuclear energy investments as "green." Despite the potential of nuclear energy in advancing sustainability goals, public perception, influenced by historical negative narratives and media coverage, remains a challenge. This article examines the impact of the European Parliament's decision on the news flow and coverage about sustainability, climate change, and nuclear energy in the global media. By analysing seven months of global news coverage, a total of 7822 news stories in English were selected. Through descriptive analysis and unsupervised topic modelling Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) machine learning techniques, this study explores trends in news content and coverage, shedding light on the intersection of energy policies, and media coverage.

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对欧洲议会关于可持续能源和气候变化的“绿色”指定的媒体报道的计算分析

能源是2030年可持续发展议程的关键。在这种情况下，核能成为可再生能源发展和减少二氧化碳排放的潜在解决办法。然而，俄罗斯在2022年入侵乌克兰加剧了全球对能源的担忧，导致燃料价格飙升和经济放缓，促使欧洲议会将核能投资指定为“绿色”。尽管核能在推进可持续发展目标方面具有潜力，但受历史负面叙述和媒体报道影响的公众看法仍然是一个挑战。本文探讨欧洲议会的决定对全球媒体关于可持续发展、气候变化和核能的新闻流和报道的影响。通过分析7个月的全球新闻报道，共选择了7822篇英文新闻报道。通过描述性分析和无监督主题建模潜狄利克雷分配（LDA）机器学习技术，本研究探讨了新闻内容和报道的趋势，揭示了能源政策和媒体报道的交集。

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Energy Policy 管理科学-环境科学

CiteScore

17.30

自引率

5.60%

发文量

540

审稿时长

7.9 months

期刊介绍： Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy conversion, distribution and use as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute to climate change mitigation. The attributes of energy policy may include legislation, international treaties, incentives to investment, guidelines for energy conservation, taxation and other public policy techniques. Energy policy is closely related to climate change policy because totalled worldwide the energy sector emits more greenhouse gas than other sectors.