Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policies: A Cross Country Survey

Dabla-Norris, Era

doi:10.5089/9798400258138.001

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“…People who live closer to coastal regions susceptible to sea level rise are more likely than those in inland regions to be concerned about climate change, believe they will be personally affected, and support climate policy (Reny, Reeves, and Christenson 2022;Hopkins 2018;Brody et al 2008;Milfont et al 2014;Gaikwad, Genovese, and Tingley 2022). Looking across countries, people in developing countries vulnerable to climate change are more likely to think that climate change is happening and causing them harm compared to people in less vulnerable countries (Dechezleprêtre et al 2022;Dabla-Norris et al 2023;Kim and Wolinsky-Nahmias 2014).…”

Section: Integrating Political Economy With Behavioral Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal Experience and Self-Interest: Diverging Responses to Global Warming

Gazmararian,

Milner

2024

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How does experiencing climate change affect political beliefs? There is mixed evidence of attitude change, but previous studies have not accounted for how some citizens are more vulnerable to global warming than others. We argue that personal experience is more likely to lead to policy preference change when it is in an individual's self-interest because of one's vulnerability to future climate impacts. We test our argument using economic models of global warming, geospatial data on climate shocks, and rich survey data both across countries and over time with the same individuals. Experiencing climate change heightens risk perceptions and leads to greater support for mitigation only among individuals in locations facing future damages. The effect of experience is strongest among citizens in democratic countries. Incorporating political economy and behavioral theories helps to explain changing policy preferences.

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Section: Integrating Political Economy With Behavioral Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal Experience and Self-Interest: Diverging Responses to Global Warming

Gazmararian,

Milner

2024

Preprint

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“…There are international disagreements on whether to prioritize indicators relevant to poverty reduction (SDG1) and inequality (SDG10) or SDG13 (e.g., [127][128][129]). Social support for climate action can disappear quickly if policy trade-offs in terms of the relative costs and benefits are not made explicit [130][131][132][133] and companies are leaving net-zero alliances [134,135]. This is not to imply that firms should not, or may not need to, implement carbon reduction or any other specific objective but rather that the significance of the various factors can change based on extraneous concerns.…”

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Towards Sustainable Cosmetics Packaging

Dubé¹,

Dube²

2023

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In spite of the significant progress towards sustainable cosmetics, mass-produced sustainable packaging has proven to be a challenge. The complexity of environmental, economic, social, technological and policy considerations in conjunction with varying consumer behaviors and corporate goals can make it difficult to select an optimal strategy across heterogeneous supply-chain components spread over the globe; and the cost and effort of developing, testing and validating alternative strategies discourages empirical exploration of potential alternatives. This review discusses the challenges that can be expected in the context of broader sustainability efforts, as well as the experience gained in related fields such as sustainable cosmetics and sustainable packaging, to identify potential pitfalls as well as promising trends towards development of sustainable cosmetics packaging. The findings suggest there may be little to be gained from attempting to induce customers to change their behavior; waiting for a significant increase in global recycling infrastructure; or expecting regulatory constraints to substitute for the lack of technological and business solutions. A research strategy is delineated towards development of sustainable packaging that, with appropriate policy support, could minimize externalities and provide mass-produced packaging that is acceptable to both consumers and producers.

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Progress toward alleviating preventable waterborne diseases over the past 30 years

Ford,

Hamner

2023

Camb. prisms Water

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Over the past several decades, there have been a number of national and international meetings on waterborne diseases. Conclusions from these meetings often seem remarkably similar and suggest little progress in the field of water and health. This is both a true and a false premise, as our ability to use molecular tools to describe microbial communities has advanced to the level at which whole genome sequencing is now a routine practice and can even be deployed in the field. This article seeks to illustrate both these advances and their limitations, especially for use in low-resourced settings. What remains clear is that for most of the world, basic hygiene and sanitation measures can do more for human health than any of our current advances in molecular biology. That is not to say that these advances are not remarkable and that they can undoubtedly revolutionize risk-based testing and surveillance. Although there are many factors that contribute to increased risks from waterborne diseases, climate change above all else is creating challenges that we are ill-prepared to meet. The biggest barrier to control of these diseases is not limitations in technology but has been and continues to be the lack of political will and economic incentives.

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Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policies: A Cross Country Survey

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Personal Experience and Self-Interest: Diverging Responses to Global Warming

Personal Experience and Self-Interest: Diverging Responses to Global Warming

Towards Sustainable Cosmetics Packaging

Progress toward alleviating preventable waterborne diseases over the past 30 years

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