Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world

PG Bain; TL Milfont; Y Kashima; M Bilewicz; G Doron; RB Garoarsdóttir; VV Gouveia; Y Guan; LO Johansson; C Pasquali; V Corral-Verdugo; JI Aragones; A Utsugi; C Demarque; S Otto; J Park; M Soland; L Steg; R González; N Lebedeva; OJ Madsen; C Wagner; CS Akotia; T Kurz; JL Saiz; PW Schultz; G Einarsdóttir; NM Saviolidis

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Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world

PG Bain, TL Milfont, Y Kashima, M Bilewicz, G Doron, RB Garoarsdóttir, VV Gouveia, Y Guan, LO Johansson, C Pasquali, V Corral-Verdugo, JI Aragones, A Utsugi, C Demarque, S Otto, J Park, M Soland, L Steg, R González, N Lebedeva Show all

Nature Climate Change | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2814

Abstract

Personal and political action on climate change is traditionally thought to be motivated by people accepting its reality and importance. However, convincing the public that climate change is real faces powerful ideological obstacles, and climate change is slipping in public importance in many countries. Here we investigate a different approach, identifying whether potential co-benefits of addressing climate change could motivate pro-environmental behaviour around the world for both those convinced and unconvinced that climate change is real. We describe an integrated framework for assessing beliefs about co-benefits, distinguishing social conditions (for example, economic development, reduce..

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Yoshihisa Kashima Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the following grants or financial support Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants to P.G.B. (DP0984678) and to Y.K. (DP130102229); Marsden Fast-Start grant (E1908) from The Royal Society of New Zealand to T.L.M; MNISW Iuventus Plus Grant IP2014 002273 to M.B.; the Center tor Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES), FONDAP N<SUP>a</SUP>15130009 to R.G.; and the Government of the Russian Federation within the framework of the implementation of the 5-100 Programme Roadmap of the National Research University Higher School of Economics to N.L. Acknowledgement of non-author contributions is in Supplementary Section 5.