CIEMAT Publications
ISSN: 2695-8864 | NIPO: 832-22-015-6
PUBLISHED IN 2022
Informes técnicos CIEMAT
Carbon capture and storage in the media: an analysis of national and regional coverage in Spain, Portugal and France
Prades López, A.; López Asensio, S.; Rowland, J.; Delicado, A.; Bohn Bertoldo, R.; Bagci, A.; Comet Martínez, A.
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Abstract
Citizens often do not have direct experience with new technological developments and the media play a key role in amplifying or mitigating the risk and opportunities associated with such technologies. In the case of CCS technologies, given the low levels of knowledge and understanding of these technologies by the general public, the role of the media is particularly relevant and can provide information on how the public can understand and respond to CCS.
This report aims to analyse the conditions for public understanding and acceptance of CCS technologies by focusing on the type of information the public has access to when seeking information in the traditional (printed) media.
In line with previous CCS research, our press analysis focuses on identifying the type of discourse conveyed by the media in each of the regions studied (cross-country analysis), including the identification of the actors involved in the CCS debate, the main arguments underlying the variety of CCS discourses and possible differences between national, regional and local newspapers in each country.