The first Global Climate Strike on March 15, 2019 has represented a historical turn in climate activism. We investigate the cross-section of European stock price reactions to this event. Looking at a large sample of European firms, we find that the unanticipated success of this event caused a...

This paper constructs a comprehensive media climate change concern index based on the media coverages about climate change across a wide range of media channels from print text (newspapers) to voice (radios), and further to video (televisions). We find that the monthly change in the...