Social media enables people-centric climate action in the hard-to-decarbonise building sector.

ABSTRACT: The building and construction sector accounts for around 39% of global carbon dioxide emissions and remains a hard-to-abate sector. We use a data-driven analysis of global high-level climate action on emissions reduction in the building sector using 256,717 English-language tweets across a 13-year time frame (2009-2021). Using natural language processing and network analysis, we show that public sentiments and emotions on social media are reactive to these climate policy actions. Between 2009-2012, discussions around green building-led emission reduction efforts were highly influential in shaping the online public perceptions of climate action. From 2013 to 2016, communication around low-carbon construction and energy efficiency significantly influenced the online narrative. More significa

SUBMITTER: Debnath R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9671910 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature