What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies

S Drews, JCJM Van den Bergh - Climate policy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The lack of broad public support prevents the implementation of effective climate policies.
This article aims to examine why citizens support or reject climate policies. For this purpose …

Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws

M Bergquist, A Nilsson, N Harring, SC Jagers - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Public acceptance is a precondition for implementing taxes and laws aimed at mitigating
climate change. However, it still remains challenging to understand its determinants for the …

Individual factors influencing acceptability for environmental policies: a review and research agenda

E Ejelöv, A Nilsson - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
To facilitate an understanding of why some environmental policies are acceptable to private
citizens and why some are not, we review individual factors that influence the acceptability of …

Modelling the drivers of a widespread shift to sustainable diets

S Eker, G Reese, M Obersteiner - Nature Sustainability, 2019 - nature.com
A reduction in global meat consumption can significantly reduce the adverse environmental
effects of the food system, but it would require widespread dietary changes. Such shifts to …

[HTML][HTML] Great expectations: Public opinion about energy transition

M Thomas, B DeCillia, JB Santos, L Thorlakson - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy transition is a fundamental part of the policy response to climate change, but unlike
climate change, we know little about the factors that shape public attitudes about it. We …

How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution

G Sparkman, L Howe, G Walton - Behavioural public policy, 2021 - cambridge.org
We argue that the behavioral challenges posed by climate change are fundamentally
problems of social influence. Behaviors that perpetuate climate change are often opaque in …

Exploring public opinions on climate change policy in" Big Data Era"—A case study of the European Union Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) based on Twitter

Y Wei, P Gong, J Zhang, L Wang - Energy Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Public awareness has an important effect on the legislation and implementation of climate
change policies. Against the backdrop of the" Big Data Era," social media is an appealing …

Simple reframing unlikely to boost public support for climate policy

T Bernauer, LF McGrath - Nature Climate Change, 2016 - nature.com
Ambitious policies for limiting climate change require strong public support,,,,,,,. However,
the public's appetite for such policies, as observed in most countries, is rather limited,. One …

The 'end of the world'vs. the 'end of the month': understanding social resistance to sustainability transition agendas, a lesson from the Yellow Vests in France

M Martin, M Islar - Sustainability Science, 2021 - Springer
This paper investigates the Yellow Vests movement and the extent it constitutes an original
platform for resistance to a sustainability transition agenda in the French context. The …

[HTML][HTML] How information, social norms, and experience with novel meat substitutes can create positive political feedback and demand-side policy change

LP Fesenfeld, M Maier, N Brazzola, N Stolz, Y Sun… - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The food system causes more than a third of the global anthropogenic greenhouse gas
emissions, of which half are from livestock. Shifting towards plant-based diets could …