Extreme weather events do not increase political parties’ environmental attention – Nature Climate Change
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02024-z
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Extreme weather events do not increase political parties’ environmental attention – Nature Climate Change
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02024-z
by DairyFarmerOnCrack
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>Exposure to extreme weather events can make people more aware of environmental changes; however, it remains unclear how such events influence politicians’ behaviour.
>Combining supervised learning algorithms on over 260,000 press releases by European parties with a difference-in-differences design, we find that apart from Green parties, extreme weather events do not increase attention towards environmental issues.
>This suggests the consequences of climate change might not directly increase political attention.