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Climate Change Communication in the Global South: Media Framing, Public Trust, and Behavioural Response in Lagos, Nigeria

Climate change communication is central to public understanding, trust, and behavioural response, particularly in rapidly urbanising cities of the Global South. Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital and one of Africa’s largest megacities, faces increasing climate-related risks, including flooding, extreme heat, and environmental degradation driven by waste. This study examines how climate change is framed in Nigerian media and how such framing influences public trust and behavioural responses among urban residents in Lagos. Anchored in framing and agenda-setting theories, the study adopts a mixe…