The United Nations Frameworkk Convention on Climate Change framed the question that way two decades ago, and many experts talk of limiting CO2concentrations to 450 parts per million (ppm).
In the case of climate change, framing abounds as CEOs, politicians, NGOs and many more besides vie to frame the debate to suit their agendas - not always with the best environmental outcomes in mind.
In what is likely to prove one of its most controversial episodes yet, this week's "Cosmos" lays out the powerful scientific case for climate change, framed within a tale of two planets: Venus and Earth.
In a survey of mayors, we asked: "In your city's policy and planning activities (for energy, conservation, natural resources management, land use, or emergency planning, etc). how is climate change framed?" The following quotes give a sense of their strategies.
The tendency toward associative and affective processes and reliance on mediated information creates vulnerability to competing climate change frames put forth by interest groups (Weber & Stern, 2011), and suggests that the potential influence of such groups should be examined.
First, climate change as frame of action to reduce human impacts on the environment has a long tradition.
Nisbet, M. C. Communicating climate change: Why frames matter for public engagement.
The findings also imply that the effectiveness of particular climate change impact frames will vary from one state to another depending on a state's partisan leanings.
Our response will define our future – UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon at the UN Climate Summit, New York, 23 November 2014 True, but there's a danger in talking about responses to climate change: it frames climate change as something out there that's just 'happening'happening
