Open Letter: Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation

The document argues that climate disinformation, driven by vested interests and enabled by big tech, undermines global climate negotiations and public safety. It urges governments to adopt the UN's Global Principles For Information Integrity and pressure social media, advertising, and publishing companies to recognize the threat, adopt a universal definition of climate disinformation, and implement transparent plans to stop its spread.

• The signatories urge governments to pressure social media companies, advertising technology providers, and publishing firms to adopt a universal definition of climate disinformation. This definition includes deceptive online behavior that undermines the IPCC scientific consensus and the Paris Climate Agreement, misrepresents scientific data through cherry-picking or omission, or uses greenwashing to falsely claim support for climate goals.
• The letter outlines nine specific actions governments should encourage platforms to take, including publicly acknowledging the threat of disinformation, preventing the monetization of such content, increasing data access for researchers, and addressing the impact of AI.
• The authors recommend that governments implement the UN's Global Principles For Information Integrity, launched in June 2024, to create a framework for addressing misinformation that threatens human rights, democracy, public health, and climate action.

APA

Climate Action Against Disinformation (2024). Open Letter: Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation. https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Open-Letter_-Governments-Should-Act-Now-to-Curb-Climate-Disinformation-1.pdf

Chicago

Climate Action Against Disinformation. Open Letter: Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation. 2024. https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Open-Letter_-Governments-Should-Act-Now-to-Curb-Climate-Disinformation-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{climateactionagainstdisinformation2024open, author = {{Climate Action Against Disinformation}}, title = {{Open Letter: Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation}}, publisher = {Climate Action Against Disinformation}, year = {2024}, month = nov, url = {https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Open-Letter_-Governments-Should-Act-Now-to-Curb-Climate-Disinformation-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }