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In a globalized world where environmental sustainability is a critical success factor, effective environmental communication takes precedence. The purpose of the present study is to analyse the evolution of climate change research, primarily in communication focussed journals, over the last decade.

Employing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol, a comprehensive analysis was conducted using research protocol on 374 studies in top ten high-ranking communication journals.

The results suggest that though effective communication strategies are crucial for generating climate awareness, contributions in communication-focussed journals remain limited. Most publications on this theme originate from the USA, Europe and Australia, with a notable lack of contributions from Asian publications. Five major themes, emerged representing the types of discussions taking place: “Green Advocacy in Corporate Communication”, “Green and sustainable IT infrastructure”, “Climate Narratives”, “Scientific discourses” and “Framing climate change”.

The research is original in the way it provides valuable insights for researchers, policymakers and practitioners aiming to enhance the impact of environmental communication.

The Children's Hearings System is a Scottish welfare-based tribunal-based system in which decisions are made about the care and protection of children in conflict with the law and/or in need of additional care and protection. The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the rapid implementation of a virtual Children's Hearings System. This system, which operated as the sole mechanism through which decisions were made between March and July 2020, continued to be used alongside in-person and hybrid Hearing formats for the duration of the pandemic. Early research into the use of virtual Hearings identified that their use presented significant barriers to participation, particularly in relation to the impacts of digital literacy and digital poverty. However, much of this research focused upon the experiences of adult participants in Hearings and failed to capture the experiences of children. In this chapter, we present findings from a qualitative study designed to explore the impact of virtual Hearings upon the participation and rights of children. In doing so, we demonstrate that virtual Hearings acted as both a barrier and facilitator of children's participation.