Psychology of climate change

L Steg - Annual Review of Psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Human behavior plays a critical role in causing global climate change as well as in
responding to it. In this article, I review important insights on the psychology of climate …

Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature

S Maestre-Andrés, S Drews, J Van den Bergh - Climate policy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
While carbon pricing is widely seen as a crucial element of climate policy and has been
implemented in many countries, it also has met with strong resistance. We provide a …

Fighting climate change: International attitudes toward climate policies

This paper studies how people across the world perceive and understand climate change
and climate policies, which factors determine their support for climate action, and what type …

Overcoming public resistance to carbon taxes

S Carattini, M Carvalho… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon taxes represent a cost‐effective way to steer the economy toward a greener future.
In the real world, their application has however been limited. In this paper, we address one …

French attitudes on climate change, carbon taxation and other climate policies

T Douenne, A Fabre - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper aims to assess the prospects for French climate policies after the Yellow Vests
crisis halted the planned increase in the carbon tax. From a large representative survey, we …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the resistance to carbon taxes: Drivers and barriers among the general public and fuel-tax protesters

J Ewald, T Sterner, E Sterner - Resource and Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon taxes are generally well accepted in countries with significant experience thereof but
there is still public resistance to raising them. We study attitudes toward carbon taxation and …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking global carbon revenues: A survey of carbon taxes versus cap-and-trade in the real world

J Carl, D Fedor - Energy Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigate the current use of public revenues which are generated through both carbon
taxes and cap-and-trade systems. More than $28.3 billion in government “carbon revenues” …

Animal welfare is a stronger determinant of public support for meat taxation than climate change mitigation in Germany

G Perino, H Schwickert - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
A tax on meat could help address the climate impact and animal welfare issues associated
with the production of meat. Through a referendum choice experiment with more than 2,800 …

Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?

S Carattini, A Baranzini, P Thalmann, F Varone… - … and resource economics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Turning the Paris Agreement's greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic
policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability …