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

As the world confronts a widening gap between intensifying climate impacts and the slow pace of action to tackle the crisis,¹ this report, now in its fourth edition, continues to examine how people engage with climate change news and information. This analysis draws on four years of comparable data collected in the same eight countries: Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (USA). In addition to tracking trends in climate news consumption over time, this year’s report introduces new themes, including public evaluations of political leadership on climate change, audience needs for climate news coverage, and perceptions of the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI).