'Climate Emergency': How Emergency Framing Affects The United Kingdom’s Climate Governance

This article addresses the relationship between how discourses are framed, how they influence processes of change and stability, and how liberal democracieshere, the UK-govern the risks posed by climate change. It analyses divergent ways in which 'emergency framing' is employed in the UK's climate governance field-a contested, multi-actor field where strategic communications works to influence processes of goal setting, policy making, standard setting, and implementation. The article inquires who is and who is not using emergency frames at varying levels of intensity, and why.