Media Influence on Environmental Perception and Sustainability Discourse: A Review

Abstract

With the ongoing climate change and a dramatic decrease in biodiversity, the environment needs a journalist's attention more than ever. They have the invariably critical power to spread awareness, foster collective action, and promote the growth of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972 was the first world conference to put the environment high on the agenda, and one of the key outcomes of the conference was the establishment of the United Nations.Environment Program (UNEP), the mandate of which is to facilitate sustainable development. The UNEP   also emphasized the importance of   education   and   the   media multiple times in raising awareness about the environment and sustainability.