How Does the World View China’s Carbon Policy? A Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data
China has recently put forth an ambitious plan to achieve carbon peak around 2030 and carbon neutrality around 2060. However, there are quite a few differences regarding the public views about China’s carbon policy between the Chinese people and the people from other countries, especially concerning...
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| author | Ning Xiang Limao Wang Shuai Zhong Chen Zheng Bo Wang Qiushi Qu |
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| description | China has recently put forth an ambitious plan to achieve carbon peak around 2030 and carbon neutrality around 2060. However, there are quite a few differences regarding the public views about China’s carbon policy between the Chinese people and the people from other countries, especially concerning the doubt of foreign people about the fidelity of China’s carbon policy goals. Based on Twitter data related to China’s carbon policy topics from 2008 to 2020, this study shows the inter- and intra-annual trends in the count of tweets about China’s carbon policy, conducts sentiment analysis, extracts top frequency words from different attitudes, and analyzes the impact of China’s official Twitter accounts on the global view of China’s carbon policy. Our results show: (1) the global attention to China’s carbon policy gradually rises and occasionally rises suddenly due to important carbon events; (2) the proportion of Twitter users with negative sentiment about China’s carbon policy has increased rapidly and has exceeded the proportion of Twitter users with positive sentiment since 2019; (3) people in developing countries hold more positive or neutral attitudes towards China’s carbon policy, while developed countries hold more negative attitudes; (4) China’s official Twitter accounts serve to improve the global views on China’s carbon policy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-86bfe2d1601c4566b834e686bf3990bc2023-11-22T23:13:20ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732021-11-011422778210.3390/en14227782How Does the World View China’s Carbon Policy? A Sentiment Analysis on Twitter DataNing Xiang0Limao Wang1Shuai Zhong2Chen Zheng3Bo Wang4Qiushi Qu5Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaSchool of Economics, Hebei University of Geosciences, Shijiazhuang 050031, ChinaChina has recently put forth an ambitious plan to achieve carbon peak around 2030 and carbon neutrality around 2060. However, there are quite a few differences regarding the public views about China’s carbon policy between the Chinese people and the people from other countries, especially concerning the doubt of foreign people about the fidelity of China’s carbon policy goals. Based on Twitter data related to China’s carbon policy topics from 2008 to 2020, this study shows the inter- and intra-annual trends in the count of tweets about China’s carbon policy, conducts sentiment analysis, extracts top frequency words from different attitudes, and analyzes the impact of China’s official Twitter accounts on the global view of China’s carbon policy. Our results show: (1) the global attention to China’s carbon policy gradually rises and occasionally rises suddenly due to important carbon events; (2) the proportion of Twitter users with negative sentiment about China’s carbon policy has increased rapidly and has exceeded the proportion of Twitter users with positive sentiment since 2019; (3) people in developing countries hold more positive or neutral attitudes towards China’s carbon policy, while developed countries hold more negative attitudes; (4) China’s official Twitter accounts serve to improve the global views on China’s carbon policy.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/22/7782carbon policycarbon neutralTwittersentimentsChina |
| spellingShingle | Ning Xiang Limao Wang Shuai Zhong Chen Zheng Bo Wang Qiushi Qu How Does the World View China’s Carbon Policy? A Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data Energies carbon policy carbon neutral sentiments China |
| title | How Does the World View China’s Carbon Policy? A Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data |
| title_full | How Does the World View China’s Carbon Policy? A Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data |
| title_fullStr | How Does the World View China’s Carbon Policy? A Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Does the World View China’s Carbon Policy? A Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data |
| title_short | How Does the World View China’s Carbon Policy? A Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data |
| title_sort | how does the world view china s carbon policy a sentiment analysis on twitter data |
| topic | carbon policy carbon neutral sentiments China |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/22/7782 |
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