Increased climate policy activity at EU level has been met with a rising time of climate disinformation

The document identifies climate disinformation as a growing economic, security, and democratic threat to the European Union, noting that existing laws like the Digital Services Act and AI Act lack tailored measures for this specific issue. QuotaClimat, alongside journalists' federations and NGOs, proposes a three-pillar response—sectoral action, filling regulatory gaps, and protecting media—and a six-priority manifesto to strengthen media literacy, protect environmental journalists, and combat false information regarding scientific consensus on global warming.

• Climate disinformation is increasing across social and mainstream media in EU countries, posing economic, security, and democratic threats by polarizing discourse and undermining informed decision-making.
• Existing EU legislative tools, including the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), and the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), are considered insufficient because they lack specific measures tailored to climate disinformation.
• QuotaClimat and its partners propose a manifesto with six priorities: strengthening independent audiovisual regulatory authorities, evolving the media regulatory framework, combating false information on CSR and global warming consensus, reinforcing environmental media literacy, granting whistleblower status to environmental journalists, and improving media-institution relations.

APA

QuotaClimat (2025). Increased climate policy activity at EU level has been met with a rising time of climate disinformation. https://quotaclimat.org/en/plaidoyer-europeen/

Chicago

QuotaClimat. Increased climate policy activity at EU level has been met with a rising time of climate disinformation. 2025. https://quotaclimat.org/en/plaidoyer-europeen/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=QuotaClimat |title=Increased climate policy activity at EU level has been met with a rising time of climate disinformation |date=13 January 2025 |url=https://quotaclimat.org/en/plaidoyer-europeen/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{quotaclimat2025increased, author = {{QuotaClimat}}, title = {{Increased climate policy activity at EU level has been met with a rising time of climate disinformation}}, publisher = {QuotaClimat}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://quotaclimat.org/en/plaidoyer-europeen/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }