
Climate Conversation Maps
The Climate Conversation Map (CCM) surfaces the volume of climate change articles posted on Facebook, and how people interact with them around the world. Researchers and nonprofits in the climate space use these maps to inform the climate debate and deliver new resources. These maps marry data science research, computing power, and aggregated, de-identified platform data to summarize and map the prevalence of these conversations and provide insight into where, when, and how often people share or react to links related to climate change on the Facebook app.

This L3 (equivalent to US county-level) Climate Conversation Map shows hyperlocal patterns as a fraction of links related to climate change over the total number of links shared on Facebook week over week.

Features

Privacy Preserving
All data is aggregated and de-identified to preserve user privacy. We also apply a threshold of a minimum number of people sharing these types of links, only displaying data for regions that meet this threshold requirement.

Climate Data
Climate conversation maps provide insight into where, when and how often people share or react to links related to climate change on Facebook. These maps fill a gap in the available data on the topic of climate.

Global Coverage
The information is being updated weekly world-wide. These global maps are aggregated on 2 different levels, L1 (country-level) and L3 (equivalent to US county)
Who Uses Climate Conversation Maps

Universities and researchers
Partners have proposed various use cases, including: tracking social media outreach, measuring impacts of campaigns, understanding online reaction toward climate events, characterizing the temporal evolution of climate conversation, and etc.
Non-profit organizations
Non-profits responding to natural disasters could gain insights on understanding regional trends in climate-related conversations or to track awareness of disasters being linked to climate change.

The percentage of shared climate change content in Australia for the week of December 15, 2019.

The percentage of shared climate change content in Australia for the week of January 12, 2020.

From August 2019 through February 2020, Australia was the country with the highest percentage of climate-change-related...
Case Studies
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Learn More & Contact Us
Read our tech blog here. Read our Newsroom Post here. We are excited to share these tools with leading researchers and nonprofits in the climate space. Those interested in accessing the Climate Conversation Map for nonprofit or research use should email us at climateconvomaps@fb.com.