Fighting climate change: international attitudes towards climate policies

Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico and Stefanie Stantcheva

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Abstract: Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key perceptions centered around the effectiveness o f the policies in reducing emissions (effectiveness c concerns), t heir distributional impacts on lower-income households (inequality concerns), and their impact on the respondents’ household (self-interest). We show experimentally that information specifically addressing these key concerns can substantially increase the support for climate policies in many countries. Explaining how policies work and who can benefit f rom t hem is critical to foster policy support, whereas simply informing people about the impacts of climate change is not effective. Furthermore, we identify several socioeconomic and lifestyle factors – most notably education, political leanings, and availability of public transportation – that are significantly correlated with both policy views and overall reasoning and beliefs about climate policies. However, it is difficult to predict beliefs or policy views based on these characteristics only.

Keywords: climate change; climate policies; carbon tax; perceptions; survey; experiment; French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; French Conseil d’Analyse Economique; Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 H23 P48 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 151 pages
Date: 2022-12-02
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Working Paper: Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies (2022)
Working Paper: Fighting climate change: international attitudes towards climate policies (2022)
Working Paper: Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies (2022)
Working Paper: Fighting climate change: International attitudes toward climate policies (2022)
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