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538 gap statements mined from Climate Change Communication and Perception papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 4,890 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • Future research should investigate how partially climate-skeptic attitudes shape policymaking and whether they facilitate cooperation between center-right parties and the far right.

    Many shades of climate skepticism: Exploring climate change attitudes among local political elites in Germany · 2026 · DOI

  • For policy and communication, the results point to the need for strategies grounded in lived experience, such as using familiar seasonal cues, local ecological change, memory, and socio-economic context, to bridge scientific narratives with everyday realities and support more equitable engagement.

    Climate identities across the life-course and the role of oral testimony in exploring drivers of influence: lessons from older adults in Netherlands · 2026 · DOI

  • Based on what emerged from our study, in the future, it might be useful to extend the research to PEBs that were not considered, for example, behaviors inherent in fast fashion, in order to have a greater understanding of the different types of PEBs that can be enacted.

    Can Trust in Climate-Skeptical Governments Inhibit Pro-Environmental Action? Implications for Public Participation and Democratic Innovations · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research could explore other meteorological factors, such as wind speed, humidity, and atmospheric pressure, as well as other emotional and cognitive responses, such as hope and moral reasoning, to capture the multifaceted impact of climate change.

    Decoding the Public’s Real-Time Emotional and Cognitive Responses to the Changing Climate on Social Media: Computational Analysis Using Weibo and Meteorological Data · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research should consider comparative analyses across different languages and media ecosystems, explore the evolution of eco-anxiety discourse over time, and incorporate metaphor analysis to better understand how language mediates environmental emotions. Another limitation of this study is a lack of systematic geographic breakdown of the digital content.

    Intersection Between Eco-Anxiety and Lexical Labels: A Study on Mental Health in Spanish-Language Digital Media · 2025 · DOI

  • While repeatedly stating that “there is nothing in the created world but energy in motion, and that every thought directs some aspects of that energy”, Bailey also noticed that the influence of thought is limited by the sphere of “some greater thinking, directing energy” (Bailey 1953, 631).

    “Medical Men in the New Age”: Alice Bailey’s Impact on Contemporary Energy Healing · 2025 · DOI

  • Although various proposals, guidelines, and debates exist, there is a significant gap in research addressing both the application and effectiveness of such policies in the short, medium, and long term.

    Mental Health, Climate Change, and Sustainable Public Health Action: A Scoping Review · 2026 · DOI

  • The specific processes through which children come to learn that environmental concern is more appropriate for girls than for boys remain underexplored.

    The Green Gender Gap in Adolescence: A Case Study of Norway · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a pressing need for further research into the mental health outcomes and other factors associated with climate change-related anxiety and worry, as many of the conclusions drawn in this review are based on a limited number of studies.

    Scoping review: climate change-related anxiety and worry in children, adolescents, and young adults · 2026 · DOI

  • A key limitation of this study is its reliance on the single search term “sea‑level rise”, which may have excluded articles discussing adaptation under related terms such as “coastal risks” or “flood protection.

    Building Techno-Scientific Trust in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise in the Dutch Online Media · 2026 · DOI

  • Fourth, Indigenous and culturally diverse young adults are insufficiently represented in much of the existing research, and mainstream measures may inadequately capture relational understandings of Country, culture, collective wellbeing, and ecological loss.

    A Critique of Conceptual Frameworks and Models Applied in Climate Change-Driven Eco-Anxiety Research Focusing on Young Adults in OECD Countries: Guidelines for a Theoretical Trajectory of Future Eco-Anxiety Research · 2026 · DOI

  • While the findings may offer relevant policy insights and inform decision-making, future research should examine larger and more diverse populations across contexts and incorporate additional latent constructs to further refine understanding of the underlying relationships.

    Risk, values, and efficacy in climate policy participation: A European psychosocial analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • Due to lacking information about the family situation of MPs, this should be investigated in future research.

    An emotional climate: Legislators’ emotional engagement with climate issues across age, party and time · 2026 · DOI

  • While prior research has examined public support under conditions of no or predefined information provision, little is known about the factors that shape how individuals actively select information about CDR and integrate it into their preferences about the technology.

    Initial affect shapes risk-benefit information processing and public support for carbon dioxide removal technologies · 2026 · DOI

  • While empirical research has begun to explore its prevalence and emotional impacts, little is known about the lived experience of CD.

    ‘Taking the green pill’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experiences of climate distress · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should investigate under which circumstances distress may result in impairment and how this transition may be prevented.

    Climate change distress and impairment among adolescents in Germany · 2025 · DOI

  • Although threat-based messages are widely used in environmental communication, their effectiveness in forest fire prevention remains understudied.

    Evaluating fear appeals in community-based forest fire prevention to support Indonesia’s climate goals · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research should investigate the relationship between variables to provide comprehensive benefits.

    Impact of climate change education on older adults’ knowledge, attitudes, practices, and health outcomes: A quasi-experimental study · 2025 · DOI

  • Addressing climate change requires international cooperation, yet how residents of one country react to climate actions by other countries is not well understood.

    How Climate Actions by Other Countries Affect Policy Support in the United States: The Role of Perceived Public Opinion · 2024 · DOI

  • A thorough report that highlights the current levels of climate change awareness, perceived impacts, and specific educational needs of various demographic groups, including students, teachers, NGO representatives, religious representatives, and local and political representatives within Gilgit-Baltistan, forms the basis of the second phase. The report is based on semi-structured interviews with community members.

    Empowering climate action through policy analysis and education in Gilgit-Baltistan: a comprehensive mixed method analysis · 2025 · DOI

  • Previous studies have reported mixed findings regarding the influence of social media use on climate change belief or climate-related actions.

    Social media use, political ideology, climate change belief, and support for greenhouse emissions regulation: an analysis of the 2020 American National Election Studies (ANES) · 2026 · DOI

  • Real-world systems exhibit pronounced input variability and are observed through noisy, limited data - Cost or feasibility constraints often prevent collecting multiple independent sample paths from real systems - Chaos-induced sensitivity to initial conditions can make it difficult to test…

    Discovering Governing Physics in the Presence of Uncertainty · 2026 · DOI

  • Further testing of SIP on more complex systems - Exploration of other methods for inferring posterior distributions - Investigation of the application of SIP to other fields - Development of more efficient algorithms…

    Discovering Governing Physics in the Presence of Uncertainty · 2026 · DOI

  • Limitations of this study include: (1) Sample restriction to six core cities, potentially limiting generalizability to rural and small-to-medium cities; (2) Inadequate coverage of emerging technologies…

    The Cognitive Differences and Integration Paths of Science Communication from a Cross-Cultural Perspective - Enlightenment from the Comparison of Science Education in China and Germany · 2026 · DOI

  • This study underscores the intricate interplay between religious identity, political ideology, and climate anxiety, highlighting their roles as critical yet underexplored determinants of public engagement with climate change.

    How Do Religions and Religiosity Matter for Climate Anxiety? · 2025 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) Future research should investigate how partially climate-skeptic attitudes shape policymaking and whether they facilitate cooperation between center-right parties and the far right (“Many shades of climate skepticism: Exploring climate change attitudes among…”, 2026); (2) The specific processes through which children come to learn that environmental concern is more appropriate for girls than for boys remain underexplored (“The Green Gender Gap in Adolescence: A Case Study of Norway”, 2026); (3) While empirical research has begun to explore its prevalence and emotional impacts, little is known about the lived experience of CD (“‘Taking the green pill’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the…”, 2026); (4) Future research should investigate under which circumstances distress may result in impairment and how this transition may be prevented (“Climate change distress and impairment among adolescents in Germany”, 2025); (5) Although threat-based messages are widely used in environmental communication, their effectiveness in forest fire prevention remains understudied (“Evaluating fear appeals in community-based forest fire prevention to support…”, 2025). 538 gap statements have been mined from Climate Change Communication and Perception papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 4,890 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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