<p>This study adopts an ecolinguistic approach to critical discourse analysis to examine how Moroccan online news outlets frame climate change. Drawing on a corpus of 195 articles (2011–2022), the analysis combines corpus linguistics with cognitive and ecolinguistic frameworks to uncover dominant linguistic patterns. Quantitative mapping of salient lexis and collocations highlights the prevalence of economic vocabulary, while qualitative interpretation traces how these linguistic triggers activate specific frames. Findings reveal four recurring framings: <span>climate change is an economic problem, climate change costs money, climate action saves money</span>, and <span>climate action is an economic opportunity</span> which collectively constitute a dominant economics-based frame. This frame foregrounds agri-business, green energy, and investment as central to Morocco’s climate response, thus aligning with broader narratives of ecological modernization and green growth. While these framings legitimize large-scale projects and policy agendas by emphasizing the cost–benefit logic, they simultaneously risk subordinating ecological and social concerns to the ideology of perpetual growth and the myth of decoupling economic growth from environmental pressures. The paper argues that the Moroccan case illustrates how climate discourse reproduces neoliberal economic priorities under the guise of sustainability, which reinforces the need for more critical examination of the ideological implications of climate framing in media communication in the Global South.</p>