Communicating Climate Change Discourses in China

This work explains the communication of climate change discourses in China. The dominant climate discourse has been evolving across development, ecological modernisation and low carbon from 2007 to 2015. And, a wide range of actors had been cited as news sources in the coverage to make sense of climate issues. The discursive structuration and institutionalisation can be seen as a process of a discursive shift from development to low carbon in the coverage. The three newspapers, due to the nature of China’s media system and climate governance, show very different features of communicating the climate change discourses in China.