Experimenting With the Forecasting Power of Publicity in the Predictability of Climate Change in Africa-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Experimenting With the Forecasting Power of Publicity in the Predictability of Climate Change in Africa

Published:2023-09-30 Issue:Early View Volume:4 Page:
ISSN:2652-6433
Container-title:Energy RESEARCH LETTERS
language:en
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Author:

Isah Kazeem O.¹,Sule Abubakar²,Johnson Adelakun O.³,Alehile Kehinde S.²

Affiliation:

1. University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

2. Kogi State University, Nigeria

3. National University of Lesotho, Lesotho

Abstract

Motivated by the fact that the majority of news outlets in Africa have not sufficiently covered climate change issues, we innovatively construct a news-based index, drawing from the big data archive of Google Trends, as a proxy for publicity in the predictability of climate change. We show that increasing publicity about climate change has the potential to cause emission reduction and slow climate change.

Publisher

Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association

Subject

General Medicine

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