ABSTRACT
Since the industrial revolution, the human population, social-economical development and technology applications grew rapidly. Mankind influences and destruction to Earth enlarged, so do the mass production of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The increase global warming and extreme weather events already brought about the social-economical problems for vulnerable areas, increased the flight for water resources, and potentially created diseases and deaths. This study analyzed three major newspapers from 1997 to 2008. From the establishment of the Kyoto Protocol by the United Nation’ Frame Work Convention of Climate Change in 1997, Taiwan Nation Energy Convention, denying of Kyoto Protocol by America in 2001, enacting of Kyoto Protocol in 2005, awarding Gore and International Panel for Climate Change with Nobel’s Peace Award in 2007, and damaging Taiwan with the extreme rainfall by Typhoon Morakot, the reporting numbers increased with those domestic and international events. The importance of climate change and related issues became the focus of our attentions.

Taiwan participated in Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (COMPON) to investigate the factors for society learning and construction process of global climate changes as well as to compare the policy response from different countries. The purpose is to study the knowledge model of policymaking of climate change between countries and global society. Our media analysis started from the keywords of climate change or Kyoto Protocol or global warming. We followed the COMPON media analysis method to categorize the themes of ecology/meteorology, policymaking, economic or energy interest, culture, technology, and civil society with levels of local, state/prefecture, national, regional, and global. The network analysis followed those statistical investigation.

The reporting between 2007-2008 focused the policy debates on energy (21%)、GHGs reduction(19%)、economic/market impact(11%)、adaptation and disaster prevention(9%)、and extreme weather(8%). The main policy processes include energy policy (26%)、activities of GHGs reduction(19%)、GHGs reduction policy(14%)、carbon trade(14%)、and green power industry(13%). The policy network analysis indicated that the international linkage of Taiwan with international society seeming not as close as we thought; our policymaking seeming mostly from domestic events and driving; our NGOs seeming not play their roles for pushing the uses forwards; and our civil society seeming not set up a normal to influencing policymaking. Our future study will use the COMPON survey to study the policy network from different levels of leaders (governmental agencies, political parties, enterprise, trade associations and NGOs) as well as the activities of influencing organization.

Keyworld：Taiwan Climate Change Policy、COMPON、Newspaper Analysis、Policy Network analysis。