# CLICOPRE — Climate Communication & Political Response

> CLICOPRE studies how extreme weather events shape climate-related
> communication by politicians and news outlets on social media, and
> whether these shocks influence political action, legislative activity,
> and voting behaviour in the EU and the US.

## Project details

- Full name: Climate Communication & Political Response (CLICOPRE)
- Principal Investigator: Duccio Gamannossi degl'Innocenti
- Affiliations: University of Padua (inbound); Harvard University (outbound)
- Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions — Seal of Excellence at the University of Padua, with the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo
- Period: 2026–2029
- Website: https://clicopre.github.io

## Research agenda

The project is organised around three intertwined questions:

1. **Climate Communication** — Measuring how extreme weather events reshape climate communication by politicians and news outlets on social media, and how audiences respond.
2. **Legislative Activity** — Tracing whether weather-driven shifts in attention translate into climate-policy activity in the European Parliament and the US Congress.
3. **Voting & Accountability** — Assessing whether voters reward substantive policy responses over rhetoric on climate issues, and whether communication complements or substitutes for action.

## Methods & data

- 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.
- Coverage: 15 EU countries and the US, 2000–2024.
- Outputs: Working papers, replication code, open datasets, policy-facing writing, and interactive evidence interfaces.

## Sections

- [Research agenda](https://clicopre.github.io/#research)
- [Methods & data](https://clicopre.github.io/#approach)
- [People & institutions](https://clicopre.github.io/#people)
- [Outputs](https://clicopre.github.io/#outputs)
- [Updates](https://clicopre.github.io/#updates)
- [Contact](https://clicopre.github.io/#contact)

## Contact

- Email: clicopre-AT-gmail.com
- Address (inbound): Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno", Università di Padova, Via del Santo 33, 35123 Padova, Italy
- Address (outbound): Department of Government, Harvard University, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138