There is increasing public debate about the governance of climate change and its repercussions for nature and human livelihoods. In today's digitalized communication landscape, both public and private actors involved in climate change governance use social media to provide information and to interact with stakeholders and the broader public. This Focus Article discusses two main aspects of debates about climate change and climate governance on Twitter, which previous theories suggest to shape climate governance across domestic and global levels: non-state climate action and public opinion formation on the social media. We see significant advancement in the environmental social sciences studying these two areas. Yet, we also see the need for a better understanding of how public and private actors in the climate governance complex interact on Twitter, and how these actors shape, and are shaped by, experiences, values, and positions. This understanding will help to advance climate governance theories. This article proceeds in three steps. We first discuss previous social media research on non-state climate action and public opinion formation related to climate change and its governance. Then we sketch avenues for future research, elaborating how Twitter data might be used to investigate how non-state climate action and public opinion formation on social media are linked to and influence climate governance. We conclude by making the case for drawing together Twitter data and climate governance research into a more coherent research agenda.

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Twitter 上的气候变化：对气候治理研究的影响

关于气候变化治理及其对自然和人类生计的影响的公众辩论越来越多。在当今的数字化传播环境中，参与气候变化治理的公共和私人参与者都使用社交媒体提供信息并与利益相关者和更广泛的公众互动。这篇焦点文章讨论了 Twitter 上关于气候变化和气候治理的争论的两个主要方面，之前的理论认为推特可以塑造国内和全球层面的气候治理：非国家气候行动和社交媒体上的舆论形成。我们看到研究这两个领域的环境社会科学研究取得了重大进展。然而，我们也看到需要更好地了解气候治理综合体中的公共和私人参与者如何在 Twitter 上互动，以及这些参与者如何塑造经验、价值观和立场，以及如何被经验、价值观和立场所塑造。这种理解将有助于推进气候治理理论。本文分三个步骤进行。我们首先讨论之前关于非国家气候行动以及与气候变化及其治理相关的舆论形成的社交媒体研究。然后，我们勾勒出未来研究的途径，详细阐述了如何使用 Twitter 数据来调查非国家气候行动和社交媒体上的舆论形成如何与气候治理联系起来并影响气候治理。最后，我们提出了将 Twitter 数据和气候治理研究整合到一个更加连贯的研究议程中的理由。