The aim of the study was to determine the specifics of the formation and transformation of the foreign policy positions of the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) based on a comprehensive analysis of the climate communications and public diplomacy in the global context. Using the methods of discourse analysis, content analysis, and comparative analysis, the author studied materials for the period 2015-2023, including international agreements, national strategies, and policy documents. On this basis, the dominant narratives, rhetorical strategies, and value orientations that shaped the unique international positions of the United States as a technological leader and the EU as a normative force were identified. The study results revealed significant differences in strategic approaches: The US focused on technological innovations, competitive advantages, and economic opportunities, while the EU emphasised the values of multilateral cooperation, collective responsibility, and inclusive dialogue. It was found that the transformation of public narratives and communication strategies correlated with changes in political administrations in the US and institutional reforms in the EU, which was reflected in the change in rhetoric, priorities, and mechanisms for implementing climate policy. The study demonstrated a significant evolution of the approaches of both actors to the construction of international subjectivity and the establishment of global leadership through the prism of climate discourse. The key points of convergence and divergence of the foreign policy positions in the context of multilateral diplomacy and global governance were identified. The influence of climate discourse on the formation of the international image and geopolitical status of the studied actors, as well as its role in the realisation of the strategic interests in the international arena, was substantiated. Tendencies towards increased competition between the US and the EU for global leadership in climate policy and its impact on the transformation of the world order were identified.

BackgroundNear‐miss reporting intention is essential for patient safety; however, reporting rates among nurses remain low. Nurses’ silence behavior—the intentional withholding of work‐related concerns—is a key barrier to reporting. While authentic leadership is known to promote nurses’ voice behavior, research examining the relationships between authentic leadership, nurses’ silence behavior, and near‐miss reporting intention remains limited. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the abovementioned relationships and to test the mediating role of nurses’ silence behavior.MethodsA predictive correlation design was used. Data were collected from 171 nurses at three general and tertiary hospitals in South Korea between August 20 and September 15, 2022. The mediating effect of silence behavior on the relationship between authentic leadership and near‐miss reporting intention was tested using the PROCESS macro (Model 4).ResultsAuthentic leadership was negatively associated with nurses’ silence behavior (B = −0.27, p < 0.001), and silence behavior was negatively associated with near‐miss reporting intention (B = −0.65, p = 0.008). Authentic leadership did not have a significant direct effect on near‐miss reporting intention (B = 0.36, p = 0.142) but had a significant indirect effect through the mediator (B = 0.18, 95% CI = 0.03–0.37).ConclusionAuthentic leadership is indirectly linked to higher near‐miss reporting intentions through lower individual silence behavior among nurses. To enhance reporting intentions, it is necessary to mitigate situational constraints associated with silence and foster an environment conducive to open communication.Implications for Nursing ManagementNurse managers should consistently practice authentic leadership to dismantle rigid hierarchical atmospheres and cultivate an open communication climate. This targeted strategy may help reduce nurses’ silence behavior and encourage active participation in patient safety–strengthening behaviors, thereby creating a secure healthcare setting.

In this work, we analyze storylines about forest functions alongside growing media attention regarding climate change. Using an in-depth content analysis of Austrian print media (2002–2022), we identify storylines and apply a correspondence analysis to explore interlinkages between actors and storylines. We identified six storylines reflecting three thematic divergences: (i) “Climate change is not a problem” versus (ii) “We need climate-resilient forests”; “Climate change mitigation through wood utilization” constituted by (iii) “Direct use” versus (iv) “Cascading use”; and (v) “Only a managed forest is a healthy forest” versus (vi) “Hands-off Forestry”. Actors in the forest-based sector frequently iterate storylines that communicate climate change, along with mitigation, sequestration, or adaptation strategies, to advance their own operations and strategically communicate (mostly EU-level) policies they perceive as unfavorable. Nuanced communication of complex forest management storylines is needed to highlight synergies and bridge polarized debates about forest functions.

ABSTRACT As artificial intelligence-generated (AI-generated) journalism rises, its effectiveness in engaging the public to mitigate climate change remains uncertain. This study integrates the MAIN model and expectation-confirmation theory to examine how AI-generated versus human-generated climate change news influences audience news evaluation and behavioral intentions. We conducted a 2 (human-generated news vs. AI-generated news) × 2 (authorship disclosed vs. authorship undisclosed) × 2 (narrative vs. non-narrative) between factorial experiment (N = 441) to test the effects of news source, authorship disclosure, and narrative style on readers’ perceived news credibility, readability, and behavioral intentions for climate change mitigation. The t-tests revealed that human-generated climate change news elicited positive disconfirmation, while AI-generated news resulted in negative disconfirmation. A three-way MANCOVA revealed that narrative news significantly promoted climate change mitigation intentions. Further moderation analyses indicated that while AI-generated news did not differ significantly from human-generated news in terms of persuasiveness, improving the algorithmic narrative structure of AI-generated content could enhance positive disconfirmation of readability, thereby increasing the likelihood of engagement in mitigation behaviors. These findings provide insights into optimizing AI-generated journalism to enhance climate change communication and public engagement.

Climate change risk perception is increasingly recognized as an important antecedent of climate-related engagement, yet its psychological foundations remain underexplored in vulnerable, non-WEIRD contexts. This study examines associations between personality traits and affective climate-risk perception (denoting climate-related worry), among cereal farmers in Morocco. Drawing on the Big five and higher-order meta-trait personality framework, we model affective climate-risk perception as a function of both individual traits and their composite configurations. Using cross-sectional data from cereal-farming households, we estimate these associations through different analytical specifications. Results show that personality traits are significantly associated with affective climate-risk perception. At the trait level, Emotional Stability is consistently linked to lower levels of reported climate-related worry, whereas Extraversion and Openness are associated with higher worry. The findings suggest that engagement-oriented and information-seeking dispositions correspond with heightened emotional sensitivity to climate threats. At the meta-trait level, Meta-Plasticity is positively associated with affective climate-risk perception, whereas Meta-Stability is associated with lower worry. Exploratory composite configurations further reveal a non-linear, U-shaped association for a Social Harmony orientation. This indicates that moderate social embeddedness may coincide with lower concern, while very high levels are associated with increased affective climate-risk perception. Overall, the findings do not imply causal effects on behavior but demonstrate that perceived affective climate-risk is patterned along stable psychological dimensions, even under similar exposure conditions. By integrating these personality traits into affect-based climate-risk frameworks, this study highlights the role of psychological heterogeneity in shaping farmers' responses to climate-risks and underscores the need for more targeted adaptation, climate communication, and resilience-building strategies in vulnerable agricultural communities.

The purpose of this study is to analyze internal communication strategies through digital media in enhancing employee engagement at Asuransi Astra. A qualitative approach was employed, utilizing in-depth interviews, observation, literature review, and documentation involving informants engaged in organizational internal communication. The findings indicate that internal communication does not merely function as a means of information dissemination, but also serves as an integrated strategy for fostering employee engagement. The use of digital media such as WhatsApp and email facilitates information distribution and supports participatory two-way communication. Informative, persuasive, and integrative communication functions are carried out through various internal activities, including events, competitions, and campaigns, which are capable of enhancing employee participation. An open and flexible communication climate further cultivates a supportive work environment, while the quality of internal services reinforces positive employee experiences within the organization. These findings demonstrate that effectively managed digital media-based internal communication strategies can serve as a critical factor in enhancing employee engagement. This study offers practical implications for organizations to optimize the use of digital media and to improve the quality and creativity of message delivery, with the aim of sustaining employee engagement, fostering harmonious and productive working relationships, and effectively supporting the achievement of organizational goals.

Burnout among healthcare professionals remains a pressing concern. Interprofessional communication – how healthcare professionals interact with each other – has emerged as a modifiable factor to reduce burnout, and medical improvisation training is a promising method to enhance communication. However, few interventions have evaluated long-term improvements in communication or explored the mechanisms linking interprofessional communication to burnout reduction. To fill this gap, we conducted a long-term evaluation of a medical improvisational training program. Clinical healthcare workers (N = 175) from a tertiary teaching hospital in the United States – who participated in a medical improv-based training designed to enhance interprofessional communication – completed baseline and long-term follow-up assessments. Results showed that individual communication skills improved significantly from baseline to follow-up (p < .001). Participants also reported a significant reduction in burnout (p = .02) at follow-up. Path analysis revealed that changes in both individual communication skills and group-level communication climate were positively associated with changes in professional fulfillment, which in turn predicted burnout reduction. These findings suggest that medical improvisation training can foster sustainable enhancement in interprofessional communication skills and buffer against burnout by enhancing healthcare workers’ sense of professional fulfillment. Our evaluation highlights the importance of targeting both individual and group-level communication processes to promote clinician wellbeing.

Overconfidence: The Achilles' heel of climate communication? An eye-tracking experiment

Climate change awareness, motivation, and behaviours among primary health care nurses in South Africa: findings from the adapted CHANT survey

ABSTRACT In the context of growing climate vulnerability in countries like Pakistan, effective climate change communication plays a critical role in shaping public awareness and policy discourse. This study investigates how two leading Pakistani news outlets, Geo News and ARY News, framed climate change on their official X (formerly Twitter) accounts from June 2022 to May 2023. Guided by framing theory and Bolsen and Shapiro’s typology, a content analysis identified dominant frames, comparing their distribution across both channels and examine changes over time. External efficacy, response efficacy and environmental consequences were the most frequently used frames while scientific consensus and public health were underrepresented. A new inductive frame “social consequences” was introduced. Comparative analysis revealed distinct framing patterns across both outlets. Trend analysis showed a reactive framing pattern, with coverage at peak during the second phase, during and immediately after the 2022 floods. This study contributes to the literature by extending existing typologies and offering insights into climate communication in the Global South.

ABSTRACT While extreme weather events may make climate change feel more immediate and personally relevant, this potential depends largely on how such events are framed in the media. This article examines how Italian prime-time television news covered the May 2023 floods in Emilia-Romagna, focusing on the salience of climate change, the framing of causal attribution, the visibility of political and scientific actors, and the presence of obstructionist narratives. Drawing on a mixed-methods content analysis informed by framing theory, the study analyzes 1,017 television news reports broadcast on Italy’s main channels in 2023. The findings show that climate change was rarely mentioned in coverage of the floods and even less frequently framed as a causal factor. Explicit discussions of causality were generally limited and, when present, were more likely to attribute responsibility to failures in land or emergency management than to climate change. Political actors dominated the coverage, whereas scientists appeared mainly in segments explicitly addressing climate change. A qualitative analysis of the 29 news items that identified climate change as a cause of the floods further reveals the presence of obstructionist frames that downplay systemic responsibility and discourage climate action. The study contributes to research on climate communication, climate and attribution framing, and climate delay discourse, while also providing new evidence from a media context that remains highly influential but has received relatively limited scholarly attention.

ABSTRACTYoung people can be agents of change for urgently needed sustainable transitions. We combine survey data from the Urban Rotterdam Project (2021 sample: N = 1152, age range = 12–28 years, Mage = 19.07, SDage = 2.87, 54% female, 16% bi‐ or multicultural background; 2023 sample: N = 327, age range = 13–28, Mage = 19.24, SDage = 2.86, 67% female, 24% bi‐ or multicultural background) with youth participatory data (2024 sample: N = 114, age range = 16–26, Mage = 20, 51% female, 37% bi‐ or multicultural background) to examine youths’ climate‐related worry, affective wellbeing, motivations for pro‐environmental behavior and preferences for climate change communication. First, drawing on self‐determination theory, we tested whether associations between climate‐related worry, pro‐environmental behavior, and affective wellbeing depend on the quality of youths’ motivation to engage in pro‐environmental behavior. We found that climate‐related worry was associated with increased pro‐environmental behavior for youth who acted out of interest and enjoyment (i.e., intrinsic motivation) or internal pressure (i.e. introjected motivation). Youth who had internalized pro‐environmental behavior as personally important (i.e. identified motivation) showed high levels of pro‐environmental behavior regardless of worry. Climate‐related worry was also robustly associated with reduced affective wellbeing, irrespective of motivation type. Additionally, adopting a youth participatory approach, we explored youths’ preferences for climate change communication and pro‐environmental behaviors. We found that youth were more motivated by collective‐systemic than individual pro‐environmental actions because of benefits for motivation (“Alone it feels useless”), affective wellbeing (“Doing something together gives me hope”), and sustainability (“Cheaper public transport would make my choices matter”). We also found that youth preferred risk‐emphasizing, positive, and empowering communication strategies over approaches including humor and purely factual information. Overall, our research illustrates the importance of supporting youths' motivation to help them turn their climate‐related worry into pro‐environmental behavior, presents youths' perspectives on what motivating climate communication and action pathways might look like, and highlights the value of involving youth as active contributors to research and evidence‐informed climate action.SummaryThe present study combined survey and participatory methods to examine youths' climate‐related worry, affective wellbeing, motivations for pro‐environmental behavior and preferences for climate change communication.Climate‐related worry was more strongly linked to pro‐environmental behavior when youth were motivated by interest and enjoyment (intrinsic) or by internal pressure such as guilt (introjected), though introjected motivation may carry wellbeing costs.Youth who had internalized pro‐environmental behavior as personally important (identified motivation) engaged in more pro‐environmental behavior regardless of their worry levels.Climate‐related worry was robustly associated with reduced affective wellbeing, irrespective of motivation type.Youth preferred collective‐systemic over individual pro‐environmental behaviors, while also recognizing the interconnectedness between the two.Youth preferred climate communication that is direct, positive, and empowering.

The U.S. Mountain West faces mounting climate-related health risks, including frequent wildfires, prolonged droughts, and extreme heat. These hazards disproportionately affect historically underinvested communities-urban areas like West Denver, burdened by redlining and industrial pollution, and rural regions, such as the San Luis Valley, marked by infrastructure gaps and impacts to agriculture. Limited civic engagement poses a critical barrier to resilience. The Mountain West Hub (MWHub) aims to build community resilience by fostering civic engagement. Rooted in Community-Based Participatory Research principles, the MWHub's Phase I (2023-2025) objectives included understanding community experiences with climate stressors (drought, wildfires, air quality, heat), identifying opportunities for climate justice, and strengthening research and action capacities. Four advisory boards-two community-based, one scientific, and one policy/practice-were established to ensure responsiveness and cross-sector collaboration. This research brief describes the MWHub's approach to cultivating civic engagement by analyzing and integrating community perspectives on climate-related health stressors in West Denver and the San Luis Valley. Key findings from our qualitative inquiry, conducted with advisory board members, directly shaped subsequent research, including a Phase II intervention study. In addition, community-driven policy and practice initiatives addressing both water and air quality are underway, and resources to improve climate communication have been developed. As a result of prioritizing community voices, this brief provides recommendations for building climate resilience through community-led planning and action. By fostering connections and uplifting community members to mobilize and lead, we have established a solid foundation for advancing civic health equity.

BackgroundClimate gerontology examines the intersections between climate change and population ageing, yet empirical evidence on how older adults perceive climate-related environmental change remains limited, particularly in European contexts. This study analyses perceptions of changes in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events among people aged 50 and over in Austria and investigates the social factors associated with these perceptions.MethodsUsing data from the Austrian subsample of the 2021/2022 wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE; N = 3,170), an index of perceived changes in weather extremes since childhood was constructed. That was used to estimate a hierarchical multiple linear regression model including environmental awareness, sociodemographic characteristics, financial strain, subjective health, loneliness, and urbanicity.ResultsThe results indicate that perceptions of increasing extreme weather are widespread among older adults in Austria, pointing to a broadly shared awareness of climate-related change. At the same time, perceptions are socially and spatially differentiated. Environmental awareness emerges as the strongest correlate of perceived increases, underscoring the importance of cognitive and informational factors in shaping climate-related interpretations. Urban residence is associated with stronger perceptions compared to town and rural living, suggesting the relevance of geographic context and everyday exposure. Higher education and financial hardship are also positively associated with perceived increases. In contrast, subjective health and loneliness show no significant associations.ConclusionOverall, the findings suggest that perceptions of extreme weather among older adults are structured by social position, urbanicity, and environmental awareness. These results call for differentiated climate communication and adaptation strategies.

ABSTRACT Climate communication is embedded in cultural and political structures that shape whose voices are amplified. This study introduces the Cultural Configuration–Politicization Nexus (CCPN) to examine how national cultural dimensions—individualism–collectivism, vertical–horizontal power relations, and tightness–looseness—intersect with platform architectures to influence climate justice narratives. A mixed-methods analysis of 3,532 social media posts from the U.S. (vertical individualist), China (vertical collectivist), Sweden (horizontal collectivist), and Australia (horizontal individualist) reveals four patterns: (1) U.S. discourse shows high polarization and contested justice visibility; (2) China reflects state-aligned narratives with allegorical grassroots resistance; (3) Sweden depoliticizes justice through technocratic consensus; (4) Australia enables expressive pluralism but risks Indigenous symbolism co-optation. The study identifies algorithmic epistemic injustice and sector-specific discursive strategies, calling for culturally adaptive climate communication that resists epistemic erasure and centers pluralistic ontologies.

ABSTRACT This study refines the Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) model by integrating the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) and anticipated guilt to address climate change as a “moralized risk.” Using a national sample of South Korean adults (N = 1,500), structural equation modeling validates traditional RISP pathways while identifying a critical “parallel processing pathway.” Specifically, anticipated guilt and perceived efficacy directly drive preventive behavioral intentions, bypassing the mediation of information seeking. The NEP acts as a foundational filter for risk perception and efficacy, while informational subjective norms reduce perceived knowledge gaps—indicating a “normative defense mechanism” unique to the collectivist context. These findings suggest that climate communication must transcend factual dissemination. By strategically targeting moral identities and environmental worldviews, practitioners can better bridge the “knowledge-action gap” and foster substantive public engagement in sustainability.

Environmental ethics has moved from a largely philosophical debate on the moral standing of nature toward a transdisciplinary field shaping conservation policy, environmental governance, sustainable production, consumer behavior, ecological restoration, and organizational transformation. Building on the attached literature base and integrating recent additions from the supplied extraction set, this review synthesizes contemporary scholarship on the normative architectures, empirical applications, and governance implications of environmental ethics. The review shows that recent literature has expanded the field in four major directions: first, by refining debates on anthropocentric, biocentric, ecocentric, virtue-based, relational, and rights-based frameworks; second, by translating ethical theory into practical domains such as biodiversity management, environmental impact assessment, green consumption, climate communication, mining and soil remediation, and marine and forest governance; third, by foregrounding pluralism, relationality, and stewardship as mediating concepts between intrinsic and instrumental valuation; and fourth, by embedding ethics in organizational innovation, stakeholder pressure, and sustainable performance. Across the literature, the strongest trend is a shift away from binary oppositions human versus nature, intrinsic versus instrumental value, science versus values toward integrative approaches that recognize normative plurality while preserving ethical accountability. At the same time, major tensions remain regarding rights of nature, moral standing of individuals versus collectives, colonial and postcolonial histories of conservation, and the political limits of sustainability governance under predominantly anthropocentric institutions. This review contributes a structured synthesis, four summary tables, and an updated analytical agenda for future scholarship. It argues that environmental ethics is most productive when treated not as an abstract supplement to environmental decision-making, but as the normative infrastructure through which environmental knowledge, institutions, and actions are interpreted, justified, contested, and transformed. Keywords: environmental ethics; Anthropocene; biodiversity conservation; relational values; rights of nature; green innovation; sustainability governance

Creative idea withholding constitutes a significant yet insufficiently examined obstacle to organizational innovation, as unexpressed ideas cannot be evaluated or implemented. Although previous research has generally depicted emotional environments as uniformly advantageous for creativity and voice, recent perspectives indicate that emotional norms may also restrict expression by fostering self-censorship. Drawing on emotional culture theory, the present study investigates how shared norms of emotional expression influence employees’ intentional withholding of creative ideas and introduces a curvilinear framework to reconcile these divergent views. Survey data from 451 employees in Islamic banking institutions in South Punjab, Pakistan, supplemented by contextual information from managers, were analyzed using a moderated curvilinear model in Mplus. The findings reveal a U-shaped relationship, with creative idea withholding being highest when emotional culture is either weak or excessively strong, and lowest at moderate levels. Furthermore, the communication climate was found to moderate the relationship between emotional culture and creative idea withholding. By reframing creativity from a cognitive capability to a strategic behavioral choice, this study advances emotional culture theory, extends research on voice and silence, and underscores the paradoxical influence of emotional norms on the expression or suppression of creative ideas. The results suggest that organizations should foster balanced emotional cultures that support emotional norms without imposing excessive pressure for conformity. Additionally, the importance of open and dialogic communication practices in mitigating employees’ tendency to withhold creative ideas is emphasized.

Purpose This study aims to investigate how individual (gender, age, education, income, marital status and work experience) and institutional factors (sector, leadership style, organizational culture, work environment, recognition of efforts and communication style) shape workplace gratitude in a non-Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) context, drawing on affective events theory (AET). Design/methodology/approach Survey data were collected from 1,286 employees in manufacturing and service organizations in India. Workplace gratitude was measured using the Gratitude at Work Scale and data were analyzed using, including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, t-tests and analysis of variance. Findings Results revealed significant variation in gratitude across both demographic and organizational factors. Women and older employees reported higher gratitude, whereas gratitude declined with increasing education and showed a non-linear relationship with income. Employees in service organizations, supportive leadership contexts and informal communication climates reported higher gratitude than those in manufacturing and hierarchical settings. These patterns diverge from findings commonly reported in WEIRD societies, indicating that workplace gratitude in India is shaped by organization culture and organizational practices rather than universal emotional tendencies. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study provides one of the first empirical examinations of workplace gratitude in the Indian non-WEIRD context. By integrating multiple individual and institutional factors within a single model and grounding the analysis in AET, the study extends gratitude research beyond Western settings and offers novel, context-sensitive insights for both theory development and organizational practice.

ABSTRACT As heatwaves grow in frequency and intensity under climate change, their effects extend beyond physical harm to shaping how people discuss and perceive climate change itself. Understanding these emotional and communicative responses is vital for effective climate engagement and for designing more responsive climate communication and policy strategies. This study analyzes 154,436 climate change-related posts from 31 Chinese provincial capitals across a five-year period (2019-2023) on Sina Weibo, integrating heatwave indicators with sentiment scores derived from three models (SKEP, SnowNLP and RoBERTa), based on monthly aggregated data. Leveraging fixed-effects OLS, Bartik-type instrumental variables and system GMM estimations, we uncover three key patterns. First, we find that heatwaves are associated with a significant increase in the volume of climate-related discussions. Second, this heightened attention is accompanied by a marked decline in sentiment, suggesting a paradox where rising awareness may coincide with emotional strain. Third, these associations are especially pronounced in Southern China and megacities, highlighting spatial disparities in observed emotional responses. These findings suggest that climate policies should integrate emotional resilience and region-specific communication strategies to enhance public engagement during heatwaves.