Current crises are distracting from the climate crisis and weakening support for climate action, a Europe-wide survey reveals.
To limit the consequences of the global climate crisis, the global community needs to dramatically reduce its carbon emissions. However, public support for measures to achieve this goal can be attenuated by current crises, which distract people's attention and make it more difficult to introduce political instruments that entail cost increases. These are the findings of a new study by Laura Seelkopf, professor at LMU's Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science and co-authors.
In concrete numbers, initial support for the introduction of the tax was around 28 percent. In the group that received the climate information prompt, this figure rose to around 40 percent, with 35 percent rejecting the tax. In the groups that were reminded of Covid-19 and the Russian invasion, support fell again to 30 percent, with rejection at 45 percent."Our results help explain why the potential of the climate crisis to increase support for costly countermeasures is limited.
With the world projected to be highly urbanized by 2050, cities are encouraged to take urgent climate actions to mitigate and adapt to the threats of climate change. As climate change intensifies and ...
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