Attitudes toward climate change mitigation policies: a review of measures and a construct of policy attitudes

Kyselá, Eva; Ščasný, Milan; Zvěřinová, Iva

doi:10.1080/14693062.2019.1611534

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“…Consistent with other research indicating that private-sphere actions are the most commonly adopted behaviors (Larson et al, 2015;Whitmarsh et al, 2011), most responses focused on privatesphere actions. Responses to survey questions can be influenced by question wording (Krosnick, 2018;Kyselá, Ščasný, & Zvěřinová, 2019). Given this, it would be interesting for future research to explore how different framing of open-ended questions (e.g., "What would you like to see governments do?")…”

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“Taking action for the Reef?”–Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate‐related actions

Dean

Gulliver

Wilson

2020

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Climate change is the most significant threat to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). While Australians express appreciation and concern for the GBR, it is not clear whether they connect climate-related action with reef conservation. An online survey of 4,285 Australians asked ".. . what types of actions could people like you do that would be helpful for the GBR?" Only 4.1% mentioned a specific action related to mitigating climate change; another 3.8% mentioned climate change but no specific action. The most common responses related to reducing plastic pollution (25.6%). These findings demonstrate that most Australians have poor capacity to identify individual climate-related actions as helpful for reef protection, and that generic calls to action-such as "protect the reef"-are unlikely to elicit climate-related actions. As such, reef conservation initiatives must explicitly promote actions-in the home and in society-that reduce emissions and support the transition to a low carbon society.

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“Taking action for the Reef?”–Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate‐related actions

Dean

Gulliver

Wilson

2020

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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“…After all, since people who are not concerned about climate change have few reasons to support any policy aimed at mitigating climate change (see, e.g. Kyselá et al, 2019), trust in government should have particularly important consequences for the link between climate change concern and climate policy preferences. Previous research has shown that climate change concern is one of the most important individual-level predictors of climate policy preferences (Smith & Leiserowitz, 2014), yet we expect that the influence of climate change concern depends on the level of trust in government among individuals and the countries in which they live (cf.…”

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Who do you trust? How trust in partial and impartial government institutions influences climate policy attitudes

Kulin

Sevä

2020

Climate Policy

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While previous research shows that environmental policy attitudes depend on trust in government, existing studies have either focused exclusively on trust in politicians and democratic institutions (political trust) or conflated such measures with trust in a wider range of impartial government institutions and actors. In this study, we distinguish between trust in partial institutions that enact laws and policies on the one hand, and trust in impartial institutions that exercise government authority and enforce policies on the other, and systematically analyse their respective influence on climate policy preferences. In addition to investigating the direct influences of trust, we also focus on how trust in government institutions moderates the relationship between climate change concern and climate policy attitudes cross-nationally. Using European Social Survey data from 2016, we demonstrate that individual-level trust in both partial and impartial government institutions constitutes an important determinant of climate policy attitudes. Moreover, while we find no evidence of direct effects of trust at the country level, we demonstrate that individuals who are concerned about climate change are more likely to hold positive attitudes towards climate policies in high-trust countries, particularly where trust in impartial institutions such as the legal system and the police is high. Key policy insights. Individuals' tendency to favour climate policies depends on their trust in both partial government institutions that enact policies (e.g. parliament, politicians) and impartial institutions that enforce these policies (e.g. legal system, police).. At the country level, trust in impartial institutions plays a particularly crucial role for the translation of individuals' climate change concern into support for climate policies.. A climate policy platform with broad public support not only relies on a trustworthy political system that enacts sound climate policies, but also on well-functioning and trustworthy government institutions that ultimately enforce these policies.

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“…For this reason, we abstain from making a sharp distinction between them as well. For an in-depth discussion of the concepts, seeKyselá et al (2019).6 Other factors than perceived fairness affect public acceptability of climate policy, such as negative effects on international competitiveness and exports, or more generally on the economy and employment.…”

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Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature

2019

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While carbon pricing is widely seen as a crucial element of climate policy and has been implemented in many countries, it also has met with strong resistance. We provide a comprehensive perspective on public perceptions of fairness of carbon pricing and how these affect policy acceptability. To this end, we review evidence from relevant empirical studies on how individuals judge personal, distributional and procedural aspects of carbon taxes and capand-trade. In addition, we examine their preferences for distinct redistributive and other uses of revenues generated by carbon pricing and their role in instrument acceptability. Our results indicate a high concern for distributional effects, particularly in relation to policy impacts on poor people, in turn reducing policy acceptability. In addition, people show little trust in the capacities of governments to put the revenues of carbon pricing to good uses. Somewhat surprisingly, most studies do not arrive at clear public preferences for using revenues to assure fairer policy outcomes, notably by reducing its regressive effects. Instead, many people prefer using revenues for 'environmental projects' of various kinds. We end by providing recommendations for improving public acceptability of carbon pricing. One suggestion to increase policy acceptability is combining the redistribution of revenue to vulnerable groups with the funding for environmental projects such as on renewable energy.

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Attitudes toward climate change mitigation policies: a review of measures and a construct of policy attitudes

Cited by 66 publications

References 64 publications

“Taking action for the Reef?”–Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate‐related actions

“Taking action for the Reef?”–Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate‐related actions

Who do you trust? How trust in partial and impartial government institutions influences climate policy attitudes

Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature

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