The Climate Policy Crisis: Governing Disinformation in the Digital Age

Headquartered understanding of the socio-economic and technological in Waterloo, Canada, CIGI has received support impacts of digitalization and improve the quality and from the Government of Canada, the Government relevance of related research. [...] While the causes and consequences of such polarization are complex, multi-faceted and beyond the scope of this paper to examine in detail, a wealth of research has demonstrated that information, misinformation and disinformation on social media have played and continue to play a significant role in the polarization in countries across the Global North as well as the Global South (Nguyen and Vu 201. [...] The world is currently at a precipice, and while continued innovation will be required in order to prevent the worst of the climate crisis, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III released a report that states we have the knowledge, money, technology and affordable clean energy required in order to cut global carbon emission in half by 2030 and realize the goals s. [...] Despite the multifarious approaches to misinformation and disinformation campaigns of the past couple of decades, more and more people continue to believe in the consensus scientific view of anthropogenic-induced climate change and the resultant need to act. [...] “The Enormity of the Damage Done by the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign as the World Struggles to Implement the Paris Agreement.” In The Role of Integrity in the Governance of the Commons: Governance, Ecology, Law, Ethics, edited by Laura Westra, Janice Gray and Franz-Theo Gottwald, 125–39.