Climate change and news audiences report 2025: analysis of news use and attitudes in eight countries

Report

Now in its fourth edition, the Climate Change News Audience Report 2025 examines how people engage with climate change news across eight countries: Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Drawing on four years of comparable survey data, it tracks evolving patterns of climate news use, trust, and engagement. The findings reveal a gradual decline in climate news consumption in several Global North countries, driven largely by reduced television coverage and lower engagement among older audiences. Despite this, interest in climate information and trust in scientists and journalists remain stable. This year’s report also explores confidence in political leadership, audience needs from climate journalism, and perceptions of artificial intelligence’s environmental impact. Together, the results highlight enduring public concern about climate change amid shifting information habits and rising expectations of the media’s role in informing and holding power to account.

Authors: Ejaz, W; Mukherjee, M; Fletcher, R

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
• Place of publication: Oxford, UK
• Publication date: 2025-12-04
• DOI: 10.60625/risj-ndd7-hh09
• Language: English
• Keywords: climate change; global warming; news media; public engagement; consumption (sociology); political economy of climate change; public opinion; perception; politics