Climate beliefs, climate technologies and transformation pathways: Contextualizing public perceptions in 22 countries

Fritz, Livia; Baum, Chad M.; Brutschin, Elina; Low, Sean; Sovacool, Benjamin K.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102880

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Demographics shape public preferences for carbon dioxide removal and solar geoengineering interventions across 30 countries

Sovacool,

Evensen,

Baum

et al. 2024

Commun Earth Environ

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Climate intervention technologies such as carbon dioxide removal and solar geoengineering are becoming more actively considered as solutions to global warming. The demographic aspects of the public serve as a core determinant of social vulnerability and the ability for people to cope with, or fail to cope with, exposure to heat waves, air pollution, or disruptions in access to modern energy services. This study examines public preferences for 10 different climate interventions utilizing an original, large-scale, cross-country set of nationally representative surveys in 30 countries. It focuses intently on the demographic dimensions of gender, youth and age, poverty, and income as well as intersections and interactions between these categories. We find that support for the more engineered forms of carbon removal decreases with age. Gender has little effect overall. Those in poverty and the Global South are nearly universally more supportive of climate interventions of various types.

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