Environment and health

In 2022, the Osservatorio di Pavia began its collaboration with Greenpeace Italy to systematically monitor the coverage of the climate crisis in the Italian media. The study on journalistic coverage of the climate crisis was accompanied by monitoring of the presence of advertising by energy companies, the automotive sector, airlines and cruise lines in 5 newspapers. Finally, during the September 2022 electoral campaign, the analysis took into consideration the visibility of environmental issues in the statements of the main Italian political leaders.

The Osservatorio di Pavia continues its research on the media coverage of the climate crisis for Greenpeace with the analysis of the last quarter of 2022.

The monitoring of the Osservatorio di Pavia for Greenpeace Italy on the visibility of the climate crisis in the Italian media, carries on. This time, the four-month period from 1 May to 31 August 2022 is under observation.

Together with Greenpeace, the Osservatorio di Pavia monitored the speeches of 14 leading figures in the Italian political scene to understand if, in the first two weeks of the election campaign, they talked about environmental issues.

According to scientists, the climate issue is the most critical environmental emergency of our time, yet in the first four months of 2022, the topic does not seem to have a corresponding visibility on television news.

Since January 2022, the Osservatorio di Pavia has been responsible for screening the presence of the climate crisis in Italian news. The research, requested by Greenpeace Italy, aims to investigate how much attention such a relevant issue receives from newspapers, from the news and from a sample of information broadcasts.