Public Perceptions of Climate Mitigation Policies

Sollaci, Alexandre; Khalid, Salma; Khan, Hibah; Magistretti, Giacomo; Dabla‐Norris, Era; Helbling, Thomas; Srinivasan, Krishna

doi:10.5089/9798400229756.006

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“…After all, there is a very positive message in the Analyst advice because it promises a better future than the Misleading advice. To illustrate the potential, Figure 8 in Dabla-Norris et al (2023) identifies several sideeffects of climate policies that people rate as positive.…”

Section: Dealing With Misperceptions and Misleading Advicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To illustrate the potential, Figure 8 in Dabla‐Norris et al . (2023) identifies several side‐effects of climate policies that people rate as positive.…”

Section: Dealing With Misperceptions and Misleading Advicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also see Dabla‐Norris et al . (2023), who find that providing information about the effectiveness of carbon pricing policies increases public support. Fishkin speculates that media will dramatize such shifts in opinions.…”

Section: Dealing With Misperceptions and Misleading Advicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Experiments show that even highly educated subjects rely on pattern matching (Sterman and Sweeney, 2007), instantaneous mental models (Moxnes and Saysel, 2009), and on explicitly stated wait and see policies (Guy et al ., 2013). The experiments are consistent with observations of opposition to proactive policies to limit climate change (Leiserowitz, 2007; Dabla‐Norris et al ., 2023).…”

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Challenges for sustainability: misperceptions and misleading advice

Moxnes

2023

System Dynamics Review

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To ensure sustainable development, governments depend on informed decision‐makers including the electorates. Previous studies show evidence of widespread and systematic misperceptions, voter ignorance, and reliance on inappropriate cognitive heuristics. The wait and see heuristic is one such trusted heuristic that is used repeatedly and with minimal effort. When applied to the management of dynamically complex renewable resources, it leads to overinvestment and resource depletion. On the optimistic side, a laboratory experiment finds that proactive expert advice counteracts the wait and see heuristic and contributes to sustainability. However, when expert advice is challenged by misleading advice that supports the wait and see heuristic, most of the positive effect of the expert advice disappears. The experiment generalizes to a large number of sustainability problems. Different from fake news that can be corrected by simple facts, misperceptions and misleading advice call for extraordinary information policies and deliberative democracy. © 2023 System Dynamics Society.

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Section: Dealing With Misperceptions and Misleading Advicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To illustrate the potential, Figure 8 in Dabla‐Norris et al . (2023) identifies several side‐effects of climate policies that people rate as positive.…”

Section: Dealing With Misperceptions and Misleading Advicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dealing With Misperceptions and Misleading Advicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Reindeer System Generalizes To Other Two‐stock Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Challenges for sustainability: misperceptions and misleading advice

Moxnes

2023

System Dynamics Review

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“…Therefore, climate change perception among individuals and societies is considered a significant factor and driver for the development and implementation of effective climate policy measures (e.g. Ruiz et al, 2020;Dabla-Norris et al, 2023;van Valkengoed et al, 2022;UNDP, 2021;Xie et al, 2019;Bergquist et al, 2022;Weber, 2016).…”

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Polish climate policy in the opinion of young Poles - a pilot survey

Paradowska,

Platje,

Suchecka

2024

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As established in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the European Green Deal, combating climate change is one of the central elements of the European Union’s policy. As a member, Poland is obliged to develop and implement climate policy in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so climate neutrality can be achieved by 2050. In the context of low political priority for the Polish government, the study aims to identify the level of awareness, perceptions, and attitudes of young Poles towards climate change, as well as their assessment of climate policy. To achieve this aim, a non-random sampling pilot survey was conducted among young Poles in spring 2022, using an electronic questionnaire made available via social media. While the results show respondents’ awareness of and rather high interest in the threats posed by climate change, in-depth knowledge of climate change, climate policy, and its socio-economic implications is lacking. The progress in and effectiveness of climate policy in Poland is rather assessed negatively. Based on the results, key directions for future actions are suggested for the young generation to become a force in creating a more effective climate policy.

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