scholarly journals Climate change risk perception in the USA and alignment with sustainable travel behaviours

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0244545
Author(s):  
Jean Fletcher ◽  
James Higham ◽  
Nancy Longnecker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Climate Change Concern ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
Lower Carbon

In an online survey of 1071 Americans conducted in October 2016, we found technological optimism, environmental beliefs, and gender to be better predictors of climate change concern than respondents’ perceived ability to visualize the year 2050 and their future optimism. An important finding from this study is that in October 2016, just before the 2016 Presidential election, 74% of responding Americans were concerned about climate change. Climate change ranked as their second most serious global threat (behind terrorism). However, when asked to describe travel in the year 2050 only 29% of participants discussed lower carbon options, suggesting that actively envisioning a sustainable future was less prevalent than climate change concern. Enabling expectations and active anticipation of a low carbon future may help facilitate mitigation efforts.

scholarly journals More Timber in Construction: Unanswered Questions and Future Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Hart ◽  
Francesco Pomponi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Land Allocation ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Environmental Loads ◽  
Environmental Product Declarations ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Life Options ◽  
Lower Carbon

The built environment is one of the greatest contributors to carbon emissions, climate change, and to the unsustainable pressure on the natural environment and its ecosystems. The use of more timber in construction is one possible response, and an authoritative contribution to this growing movement comes from the UK’s Committee on Climate Change, which identifies a “substantial increase in the use of wood in the construction of buildings” as a top priority. However, a global encouragement of such a strategy raises some difficult questions. Given the urgency of effective solutions for low-carbon built environments, and the likely continued growth in demand for timber in construction, this article reviews its sustainability and identifies future challenges and unanswered questions. Existing evidence points indeed towards timber as the lower carbon option when modelled through life cycle assessment without having to draw on arguments around carbon storage. Issues however remain on the timing of carbon emissions, land allocation, and the environmental loads and benefits associated with the end-of-life options: analysis of environmental product declarations for engineered timber suggests that landfill might either be the best or the worst option from a climate change perspective, depending on assumptions.

scholarly journals The Outrage Effect of Personal Stake, Familiarity, Effects on Children, and Fairness on Climate Change Risk Perception Moderated by Political Orientation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6722
Author(s):  
Myoungsoon You ◽  
Youngkee Ju
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Delayed Effects ◽  
Effects On Children ◽  
Personal Stake

Outrage factors are perceived characteristics of risk that provoke emotional responses and influence risk perception. Although several studies examined how multiple influences affect climate change risk perception, outrage factors have not been comprehensively assessed in the context of climate change risk perception. Using an online survey in South Korea (n = 592), we investigated outrage factors associated with climate change risk perception and whether political orientation moderates these outrage effects. We considered 11 of 20 outrage factors: voluntariness, controllability, familiarity, fairness, uncertainty, delayed effects, effects on children, trust, reversibility, personal stake, and human vs. natural origin. Factors that overlapped with the selected outrage factors or those that were not relevant to climate change were excluded. The survey revealed that the climate change risk perception of an individual increased when they perceived climate change to be relevant to their personal lives, when they felt unfamiliar with climate change, when they thought climate change would have a severe impact on children, or when they thought climate change would have unequal consequences. Moreover, respondents who identified as political conservatives were subject to a greater outrage effect of personal stake for climate change. The implications of the outrage effect on climate change risk perception and the greater vulnerability of conservatives to outrage effect are discussed.

Understanding climate change risk perception in the USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold Vedlitz ◽  
Himanshu Grover ◽  
Samuel D. Brody
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
The Usa

Understanding climate change risk perception in the USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanshu Grover ◽  
Samuel D. Brody ◽  
Arnold Vedlitz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals Sociodemographic Characteristics and Dietary Choices as Determinants of Climate Change Understanding and Concern in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10605
Author(s):  
Ghada Talat Alhothali ◽  
Noha M. Almoraie ◽  
Israa M. Shatwan ◽  
Najlaa M. Aljefree
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Change Score ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Dietary Choices ◽  
Global Threat

Climate change poses a global threat to public health. This study investigated the understanding of, and concern over, climate change in Saudi Arabia and examined the associations with sociodemographic characteristics and dietary choices. This cross-sectional study consisted of 280 participants recruited via an online survey. Of the study participants, 45% demonstrated a sufficient understanding of climate change, and 56% were highly concerned about climate change. Male sex, medium-high monthly income, high education, and governmental employees were determinants of sufficient understanding of and great concern over climate change. Participants who exhibited a high understanding of climate change score demonstrated significantly higher consumption of vegetables (3.47 ± 0.98) and vegetable oils (3.26 ± 1.07) than participants with a low understanding score (3.31 ± 0.96 and 3.00 ± 1.01, respectively) (p ≤ 0.01). Additionally, participants with higher concern of climate change scores exhibited lower consumption of red meat (p = 0.0001), poultry (p = 0.003), margarine (p = 0.02), and soy products (p = 0.04). The study revealed a poor understanding of, but great concern over, climate change. The intake of non-climate-friendly food was typically higher than that of climate-friendly food. These findings are critical for developing strategies to enhance awareness of climate change and encourage people to consume climate-friendly food to mitigate climate change and improve public health.

Communicating climate change: Climate change risk perceptions and rock lobster fishers, Tasmania

Marine Policy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 753-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Nursey-Bray ◽  
G.T. Pecl ◽  
S. Frusher ◽  
C. Gardner ◽  
M. Haward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Rock Lobster ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Change Climate

scholarly journals Economic development, climate and values: making policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1812) ◽  
pp. 20150820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Stern
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Investment Environment ◽  
Economic Development And Growth ◽  
Stern Review ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
Dangerous Climate Change

The two defining challenges of this century are overcoming poverty and managing the risks of climate change. Over the past 10 years, we have learned much about how to tackle them together from ideas on economic development and public policy. My own work in these areas over four decades as an academic and as a policy adviser in universities and international financial institutions has focused on how the investment environment and the empowerment of people can change lives and livelihoods. The application of insights from economic development and public policy to climate change requires rigorous analysis of issues such as discounting, modelling the risks of unmanaged climate change, climate policy targets and estimates of the costs of mitigation. The latest research and results show that the case for avoiding the risks of dangerous climate change through the transition to low-carbon economic development and growth is still stronger than when the Stern Review was published. This is partly because of evidence that some of the impacts of climate change are happening more quickly than originally expected, and because of remarkable advances in technologies, such as solar power. Nevertheless, significant hurdles remain in securing the international cooperation required to avoid dangerous climate change, not least because of disagreements and misunderstandings about key issues, such as ethics and equity.

scholarly journals Equator Principles 4-Revised Climate Change Risk: What Does This Mean For Project Financing in Africa Amidst The Ongoing Energy Transition?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Ailly P.G. Sheehama
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Project Financing ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Equator Principles

Since its inception, the Equator Principles Association introduced a risk management framework in response to the ever-changing environmental and social risk in projects. The Equator Principles (EPs) result from minimum standards for risk management to stop the race to the bottom. In June 2013, EP3 was introduced, and climate change requirements were added to address the 'transition towards an ethical and low-carbon economy.' This eventually led to the newly revised Equator Principles 4 (EP4s), 'Climate Change Risk Assessment' (transition risk), in July 2020. This article analyses the effect of the transition risk of EP4 to determine whether this new addition will support or inhibit oil and gas project financing in Africa amidst the ongoing energy transition by questioning the underlying assumptions upon which the policy design was developed. The article concluded that consideration for project financing in Africa could be expected to address the energy needs in Africa while at the same time essentially pushing governments to take into consideration climate change by putting in place processes, policies, and systems to manage these risks.' Furthermore, the transition risks definition and implementing standards of EP4 are broadly worded, allowing adapting the principles to a wide range of regimes that positively contribute to these domains. This essentially enables consideration of ethical transition and provides for coordination and coherence across different policy domains.

scholarly journals Climate Change Risk Perception and Perceptions of Adaptation Measures in Egypt: A Mixed Methods Study of Predictors and Implications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hayam Elshirbiny
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

<p>Egypt is among the most susceptible countries in the world to the potential impacts of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified the Nile Delta as one of the most exposed deltas to sea level rise. Despite these alarming predictions, there is a lack of in-depth studies on public risk perceptions of climate change in Egypt. Understanding the public’s risk perception of climate change is vital in informing policy and developing effective risk communication strategies that improve public engagement with climate change and, in turn, encourage actions to address its potentially harmful impacts.  This thesis provides a novel contribution to the literature through a mixed methods approach, using an online survey and semi-structured interviews. The research investigates three main topics: (1) Public perceptions of climate change; (2) Predictors of climate change risk perception; and (3) Perceptions of climate change adaptation. Results of the survey and the interviews showed that while participants were concerned about climate change and believed in the human causation of it, they had limited understanding and misconceptions about its causes (for example, erroneously linking climate change to the ozone layer).  The Climate Change Risk Perception Model (CCRPM) adopted in this study explained 19.2% of the variance in risk perception. In addition, it revealed that experiential factors (affect and personal experience) were the strongest predictors of climate change risk perception in Egypt, while socio-cultural factors (value orientations) were the weakest predictors. Interviews with participants also highlighted that negative feelings featured prominently when speaking about personal experiences with the impacts of climate change. Moreover, regression analysis showed that personal and societal climate change risk perception had different predictors. These results offer important recommendations for policy, relating to matters such as targeted ways of communicating the science, impacts and risks associated with climate change.</p>

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