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The proposal, supported by the European Green Party, aims to establish common standards for employment and social guarantees, ensuring freelancers have access to healthcare, sick leave, and maternity protections. The text highlights the role of artists as essential contributors to European identity and the green transition, while calling for EU-level protections against government censorship in member states like Hungary and Poland.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The Covid-19 pandemic caused a turnover drop of over 30 per cent for European creatives in 2020, with the performing arts and music sectors seeing losses of 90 per cent and 75 per cent respectively.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The European Green Party (EGP) manifesto calls for a \"European Artist Status\" to create common EU standards for employment, social guarantees, and working conditions, specifically targeting protections regarding streaming platforms.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Creative work in the EU is characterized by high levels of precarity; in 2022, nearly a third of cultural workers were self-employed, compared to an average of 13.8 per cent for the general economy. In Italy and the Netherlands, self-employment accounted for 46.2 per cent and 47.2 per cent of cultural employment respectively.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Streaming platforms provide very low remuneration for artists; for every 100 streams, Spotify pays 0.37 euros, Apple Music pays 0.47 euros, Deezer pays 0.44 euros, and YouTube pays 0.16 euros before label and writer splits.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Existing national models for artist support include France's \"Intermittents du Spectacle\" unemployment insurance and the Republic of Ireland's trial of a Basic Income for Artists, which provides 325 euros per week over three years.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The EU is urged to protect artistic freedom and sanction member states where governments restrict art for ideological reasons, specifically citing Viktor Orbán's government in Hungary and the PiS government in Poland's censorship of LGBTQI+ artists.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Generative AI poses a threat to the autonomy and income of artists through unauthorized vocal data scraping and the creation of digital replicas without consent or compensation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Artists can support the green energy transition by acting as a \"social glue\" for communities experiencing upheaval, such as former mining towns, helping to maintain collective identity during post-industrial regeneration.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"greeneur-000037#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["energy transition","just transition","climate finance"],"geography_discussed":["France","Ireland","Hungary","Poland","Netherlands","Italy","United States","Taiwan","People's Republic of China","Yorkshire"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy proposal","socio-economic analysis"]},{"id":"ACTClim-000018","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/ACTClim-000018","title":"10 research-driven ways to supercharge your climate comms","publisher":{"name":"ACT Climate Labs","organization":"act-climate-labs"},"document_type":"guide","language":"en","date_published":"2023-06-06","source_url":"https://www.actclimatelabs.org/ten-ways-supercharge-climate-communications/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document outlines ten strategies to make climate communications more effective for 'Persuadables' in the UK. 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Additionally, the guide advises matching hope with concrete plans, leveraging hyperlocality to tap into community pride, broadening the definition of 'climate action' to include community-led efforts, and utilizing traditional media channels like local newspapers and billboards over social media, which was found to be the least trusted channel.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ACTClim-000018#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Climate change is not a primary concern for 'Persuadable' groups, who are more preoccupied with the cost of living crisis, family security, and unemployment. 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Through qualitative research with urban residents in Newcastle, Black and South Asian communities in Birmingham, and rural dwellers in Yorkshire, the report finds that these groups often feel unrepresented by politics and distrust current climate spokespeople, whom they perceive as 'liberal elites' or 'snobs'. The research highlights that the cost of living crisis is a primary concern that overshadows climate change and suggests that trust is higher for messengers like farmers, union representatives, and specific media personalities such as Adam Henson.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ACTClim-000015#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The 'Persuadables' constitute 69% of the UK population and are characterized as people who are undecided on climate issues and are neither climate activists nor climate deniers.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ACTClim-000015#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Persuadables feel a general sense of being unrepresented by political systems and societal decision-making, with inequalities in race, class, and region leaving them vulnerable to challenges like Brexit and the cost of living crisis.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ACTClim-000015#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Climate change is often secondary to immediate economic pressures; many research participants prioritized the cost of living crisis—specifically regarding job security, feeding families, and heating homes—over climate issues.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ACTClim-000015#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is significant distrust toward traditional climate messengers, who are viewed as out-of-touch, privileged, or extreme. 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