Behavioural Climate Change Mitigation

Abstract

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Demand, Services and Social Aspects of Mitigation

“…There is medium evidence and high agreement that demographics, values, goals, personal and social norms differentially determine ASI behaviours, in the Netherlands and Spain (Abrahamse and Steg 2009;Niamir 2019;Niamir et al 2020b), the OECD (Ameli and Brandt 2015), and 11 European countries (Mills and Schleich 2012;Roy et al 2012). Education and income increase 'Shift' and 'Improve' behaviour, whereas personal norms help to increase the more difficult 'Avoid' behaviours (Mills and Schleich 2012).…”

“…As individuals pursue a broad set of goals and use calculation-, emotion-, and rule-based processes when they make energy decisions, demand-side policies can use a broad range of behavioural tools that complement subsidies, taxes, and regulations (Chakravarty and Roy 2016;Niamir 2019) (high evidence, high agreement). The provision of targeted information, social advertisements, and influence of trusted in-group members and/role models or admired role models like celebrities can be used to create better climate change knowledge and awareness (Niamir 2019;Niamir et al 2020b;Niamir et al 2020c). Behavioural interventions like communicating changes in social norms can accelerate behaviour change by creating tipping points (Nyborg et al 2016).…”

Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on the Economic Growth in the Middle East Countries

“…This is undertaken via the issuance of stocks together with shares to firms that requires capital for startup or to expand their running. The research of the economic cycles, fluctuations in the economy as well as prices over eras of 1-10 years institutes macroeconomics (Niamir 2019).…”

Identification of the Efficiency Gap by Coupling a Fundamental Electricity Market Model and an Agent-Based Simulation Model

“…Less frequent in the literature are couplings with ABM. A hybrid modeling approach by soft-linking an ABM and a CGE model is developed in [28]. The goal of this research is to evaluate policy measures to mitigate climate change while accounting for individual behavioral changes in residential energy markets.…”

“…The goal of this research is to evaluate policy measures to mitigate climate change while accounting for individual behavioral changes in residential energy markets. In [29], the approach proposed by [28] is extended by means of a hard-link between an integrated assessment model (IAM), a CGE model and an ABM using a novel web service approach for linking climate-energy-economy models.…”