CLICOPRE

Climate shocks · Communication · Policy response

Extreme Weather Events and their impact on climate communication and policy responses.

CLICOPRE studies how extreme weather events shift the climate debate among politicians and news outlets on social media, how audiences respond, and whether these shocks translate into legislative action and voting behavior in the European Union and the United States.

Main research questions → Methods & data →
Data Weather Social media Legislative activity
Coverage EU (0 countries) US
Period 0 - 0
Methods NLP & Causal inference
§ I — Research agenda

Three intertwined questions about climate, attention, and democratic accountability.

— 01

Climate Communication

Measuring how extreme weather events reshape climate communication by politicians and news outlets on social media, and how audiences respond.

  • Heatwaves
  • Floods
  • Engagement
  • Topic Analysis
— 02

Legislative Activity

Tracing whether weather-driven shifts in attention translate into climate-policy activity in the European Parliament and the US Congress.

  • Roll-call votes
  • Bill sponsorship
  • Causal methods
— 03

Voting & Accountability

Assessing whether voters reward substantive policy responses over rhetoric on climate issues, and whether communication complements or substitutes for action.

  • Elections
  • Policy response
  • Accountability
  • Causal designs
§ II — Methods & data

Large-scale data, NLP, and AI for causal insight.

  • Data

    Large-scale social media data, news-outlet profiles, parliamentary records, and high-resolution weather information.

  • Methods

    NLP and AI models combined with causal-inference designs that leverage the timing and intensity of weather shocks.

  • Outputs

    Working papers, replication code, open datasets, policy-facing writing, and interactive evidence interfaces.

§ III — People & institutions

Hosted at the University of Padua and Harvard University.

CLICOPRE is led by Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, a postdoctoral researcher whose work spans public economics, political economy, climate, and media.

The project runs under the MSCA Seal of Excellence@UNIPD. The inbound phase is hosted at the Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno” at the University of Padua. The outbound phase is hosted at the Department of Government, Harvard University.

§ IV — Outputs

Papers, data, code, and interactive interfaces.

Papers — 0

Working papers and journal articles will appear here as drafts circulate.

Data — 0

Replication datasets will be released alongside each paper.

Code — 0

Analysis code repositories will be linked here on first release.

§ V — Updates

News from the project.

— First post coming soon

Project updates, including working papers, data releases, dashboards, and events, will appear here.

§ VI — Contact

Get in touch.

For questions, clarifications, or collaboration, reach out at clicopre-AT-gmail.com.