Climate change is a global risk that has affected all countries, which requires both global and national action. From the domain of scientists, who initially dominated climate debates, climate change has now become a public issue, with politicians increasingly influencing decisions on climate action, thus climate change becoming a highly politicized media topic. Given that media focus on key issues in society, this article examines the positioning of climate change in Uganda’s media as a means of gauging the level of political commitment to translate this global challenge into climate action. Premised within the issue-attention conceptual framework and based on the findings from the analysis of print media coverage in Uganda of the COP21 global summit, the article shows that climate change is not just a local national issue but is inexplicably linked to global frameworks, where voices and actors from the North not only dominate the global climate discourse but also transcend to the national level as reflected in the coverage, with most of the climate news being from foreign sources and foreign political leaders. Journalists are urged to pre-empt the local politicians to be active participants, not passive listeners in the global climate debates, such that climate issues become high on Uganda’s political communication agenda.

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乌干达媒体反映的将全球气候变化挑战转化为行动

气候变化是影响所有国家的全球风险，需要全球和国家共同采取行动。从最初主导气候辩论的科学家的领域来看，气候变化现在已成为一个公共问题，政治家越来越多地影响气候行动的决策，因此气候变化成为一个高度政治化的媒体话题。鉴于媒体关注社会中的关键问题，本文研究了乌干达媒体对气候变化的定位，以此作为衡量将这一全球挑战转化为气候行动的政治承诺水平的一种手段。以关注问题的概念框架为前提，并基于对 COP21 全球峰会乌干达印刷媒体报道的分析结果，文章表明，气候变化不仅是一个地方性的国家问题，而且与全球框架莫名其妙地联系在一起，来自北方的声音和行为者不仅主导着全球气候话语，而且正如报道所反映的那样，超越了国家层面，其中大多数气候新闻来自外国来源和外国政治领导人。敦促记者抢先让当地政客成为全球气候辩论的积极参与者，而不是被动的听众，从而使气候问题成为乌干达政治传播议程的重中之重。