Concerns of young protesters are justified

Hagedorn, Gregor; Kalmus, P.; Mann, Michael; Vicca, Sara; Berge, Joke Van den; Strihou, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de; Bourg, Dominique; Rotmans, Jan; Kaaronen, Roope Oskari; Rahmstorf, Stefan; Kromp-Kolb, Helga; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Knutti, Reto; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Thalmann, Philippe; Cretney, Raven; Green, Alison; Anderson, Kevin; Hedberg, Martin; Nilsson, E. Douglas; Kuttner, Amita; Hayhoe, Katharine

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“…Despite a potential slow‐down of the reform process, it is critical to reflect on the unequivocal scientific evidence behind the demands made by civil society to direct the CAP towards sustainability targets. We therefore call on the Commission, Parliament and Council to fulfil their responsibility toward current and future generations (Hagedorn et al, 2019) by ensuring a high level of environmental and climate protection, investing in healthy food and diverse landscapes and promoting rural vitality and citizens’ well‐being.…”

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Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges

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1. Making agriculture sustainable is a global challenge. In the European Union (EU), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing with respect to biodiversity, climate, soil, land degradation as well as socio-economic challenges.2. The European Commission's proposal for a CAP post-2020 provides a scope for enhanced sustainability. However, it also allows Member States to choose low-ambition implementation pathways. It therefore remains essential to address citizens' demands for sustainable agriculture and rectify systemic weaknesses in the CAP, using the full breadth of available scientific evidence and knowledge.3. Concerned about current attempts to dilute the environmental ambition of the future CAP, and the lack of concrete proposals for improving the CAP in the draft of the European Green Deal, we call on the European Parliament, Council and Commission to adopt 10 urgent action points for delivering sustainable food production, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation. Market measures : 5.3 % Coupled payments : 10.2 % Direct payments (decoupled) : 40.5 % Greening (ineffective)* : 18 % Greening (effective)* : 3 % AECM** : 6.3 % ANC : 3.7 % RDP + other expenditure : 13.1 % Pillar 1 Pillar 2 | 307 People and Nature PE'ER Et al.

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“…Recent years have seen urgent calls from the international scientific community for anthropogenic carbon emissions to be drastically reduced so as to avert or mitigate a number of environmental threats (e.g., global temperature increases, extinctions, warming and acidifying oceans, sea level rise, extreme weather events) [1]. The 2015 Paris Accord seemed to hail a significant international political response accompanied by strong social will to enact changes, represented by the rise of climate movements (e.g., 350.org) [2] and strikes (e.g., Fridays for Future) [3]. However, empirical measurements taken in subsequent years indicate that changes have been ineffectual, leading to some of the highest climate-change indicator averages in recorded history [4][5][6].…”

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Assuming the Best: Individual Differences in Compensatory “Green” Beliefs Predict Susceptibility to the Negative Footprint Illusion

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Recent years have seen a marked increase in carbon emissions despite pledges made by the international community at the Paris Accord in 2015 to reduce fossil fuel production and consumption. Rebound effects could contribute to this phenomenon as, in which attempts to curb carbon emissions might have inadvertently led to an upswing in fossil fuel usage. The present study hypothesizes that rebound effects are driven by a misapplication of compensatory balancing heuristics, with the unintended outcome of producing inaccurate estimates of the environmental impact of "green" or environmentally friendly labelled products or behaviors. The present study therefore aims to investigate the relationship between participants' degree of compensatory thinking (e.g., "Recycling compensates for driving a car") and their susceptibility to the Negative Footprint Illusion, a widely replicated phenomenon demonstrating that the presence of "green" products biases carbon footprint estimations. One hundred and twelve participants were asked to complete a 15-item Compensatory Green Beliefs scale and to estimate the total carbon footprint of a set of 15 conventional houses, followed by a set that included 15 "green" houses in addition to 15 conventional houses. Results indicated that participants, on average, believed that the "green" houses were carbon neutral, and that susceptibility to the Negative Footprint Illusion was predicted by performance on the Compensatory Green Beliefs scale. This is the first study confirming that individual differences in cognitive processes (i.e., Compensatory Green Beliefs) are indeed related to inaccurate estimates of "green" products, providing a foundation for further investigation of the influence of "green" and compensatory beliefs on carbon footprint estimates.

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“…Global public movements (e.g. 'Fridays for Future') can trigger actions by policy makers, which in turn act as feedback loops on human-environment relationships (Hagedorn et al 2019). As such, progressive awareness through learning-by-doing activities, life-long education and knowledge of the implications of consumption choices are prerequisites for supporting shifts towards sustainable behaviour and practices (Blumstein and Saylan 2007).…”

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Living within a One Planet reality: the contribution of personal Footprint calculators

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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During the last 50 years, humanity's Ecological Footprint has increased by nearly 190% indicating a growing unbalance in the human-environment relationship, coupled with major environmental and social changes. Our ability to live within the planet's biological limits requires not only a major rethink in how we produce and distribute 'things', but also a shift in consumption activities. Footprint calculators can provide a framing that communicates the extent to which an individual's daily activities are compatible with our One Planet context. This paper presents the findings from the first international study to assess the value of personal Footprint calculators in guiding individuals towards sustainable consumption choices. It focuses specifically on Global Footprint Network's personal Footprint calculator, and aims to understand the profile of calculator users and assess the contribution of calculators to increasing individual awareness and encouraging sustainable choices. Our survey of 4245 respondents show that 75% of users resided in 10 countries, 54% were aged 18-34 years and had largely used the calculator within an educational context (62%). The calculator was considered a valuable tool for knowledge generation by 91% of users, and 78% found it useful to motivate action. However, only 23% indicated the calculator provided them with the necessary information to make actual changes to their life and reduce their personal Footprint. The paper discusses how and why this personal Footprint calculator has been effective in enhancing individuals' understanding of the environmental impact of their actions, framing the scale of the problem and empowering users to understand the impacts of different lifestyle choices. Those individual-level and system-level changes needed to generate global sustainability outcomes are also discussed. Similar to other calculators, a gap is also identified in terms of this calculator facilitating individuals to convert new knowledge into action.

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Concerns of young protesters are justified

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Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges

Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges

Assuming the Best: Individual Differences in Compensatory “Green” Beliefs Predict Susceptibility to the Negative Footprint Illusion

Living within a One Planet reality: the contribution of personal Footprint calculators

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