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Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world

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Bain, Paul G., Milfont, Taciano L., Kashima, Yoshihisa, Bilewicz, Michał, Doron, Guy, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Gouveia, Valdiney V., Guan, Yanjun +20 more·2016·Nature Climate Change
DOI 10.1038/nclimate2814
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    Believing climate change is important had the strongest effect size across all action measures for student samples (n = 4,049).

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    § Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world Personal and political action on climate change is traditionally thought to be motivated by people accepting its reality and importance.However, convincing the public that climate change is real faces powerful ideological obstacles [1][2][3][4] , and climate change is slipping in public importance in many countries 5,6 .Here we investigate a different approach, identifying whether potential co-benefits of addressing climate change 7 could motivate pro-environmental behaviour around the world for both those convinced and unconvinced that climate change is real.We describe an integrated framework for assessing beliefs about co-benefits 8 , distinguishing social conditions (for example, economic development, reduced pollution or disease) and community character (for example, benevolence, competence).Data from all inhabited continents (24 countries; 6,196 participants) showed that two co-benefit types, Development (economic and scientific advancement) and Benevolence (a more moral and caring community), motivated public, private and financial actions to address climate change to a similar degree as believing climate change is important.Critically, relationships were similar for both convinced and unconvinced participants, showing that co-benefits can motivate action across ideological divides.These relationships were also independent of perceived climate change importance, and could not be explained by political ideology, age, or gender.

    Relationships between co-benefits and action were similar for both convinced and unconvinced participants.

    “Critically, relationships were similar for both convinced and unconvinced participants, showing that co-benefits can motivate action across ideological divides.”
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    § Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world Personal and political action on climate change is traditionally thought to be motivated by people accepting its reality and importance.However, convincing the public that climate change is real faces powerful ideological obstacles [1][2][3][4] , and climate change is slipping in public importance in many countries 5,6 .Here we investigate a different approach, identifying whether potential co-benefits of addressing climate change 7 could motivate pro-environmental behaviour around the world for both those convinced and unconvinced that climate change is real.We describe an integrated framework for assessing beliefs about co-benefits 8 , distinguishing social conditions (for example, economic development, reduced pollution or disease) and community character (for example, benevolence, competence).Data from all inhabited continents (24 countries; 6,196 participants) showed that two co-benefit types, Development (economic and scientific advancement) and Benevolence (a more moral and caring community), motivated public, private and financial actions to address climate change to a similar degree as believing climate change is important.Critically, relationships were similar for both convinced and unconvinced participants, showing that co-benefits can motivate action across ideological divides.These relationships were also independent of perceived climate change importance, and could not be explained by political ideology, age, or gender.

    Relationships between co-benefits and action could not be explained by political ideology, age, or gender.

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    § Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world Personal and political action on climate change is traditionally thought to be motivated by people accepting its reality and importance.However, convincing the public that climate change is real faces powerful ideological obstacles [1][2][3][4] , and climate change is slipping in public importance in many countries 5,6 .Here we investigate a different approach, identifying whether potential co-benefits of addressing climate change 7 could motivate pro-environmental behaviour around the world for both those convinced and unconvinced that climate change is real.We describe an integrated framework for assessing beliefs about co-benefits 8 , distinguishing social conditions (for example, economic development, reduced pollution or disease) and community character (for example, benevolence, competence).Data from all inhabited continents (24 countries; 6,196 participants) showed that two co-benefit types, Development (economic and scientific advancement) and Benevolence (a more moral and caring community), motivated public, private and financial actions to address climate change to a similar degree as believing climate change is important.Critically, relationships were similar for both convinced and unconvinced participants, showing that co-benefits can motivate action across ideological divides.These relationships were also independent of perceived climate change importance, and could not be explained by political ideology, age, or gender.

    Data from 24 countries and 6,196 participants showed that two co-benefit types, Development and Benevolence, motivated public, private and financial actions to address climate change to a similar degree as believing climate change is important.

    “Data from all inhabited continents (24 countries; 6,196 participants) showed that two co-benefit types, Development (economic and scientific advancement) and Benevolence (a more moral and caring community), motivated public, private and financial actions to address climate change to a similar degree as believing climate change is important.”
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    • Rests on an assumption: Students typically occupy similar socio-economic positions across countries.
    • Rests on an assumption: Climate change requires a global solution.
    • Rests on an assumption: Researchers have focused on some co-benefits, such as reduced pollution or economic development, without an integrated approach to understand how co-benefits are related and comparing their importance for motivating public action.
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    § Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world Personal and political action on climate change is traditionally thought to be motivated by people accepting its reality and importance.However, convincing the public that climate change is real faces powerful ideological obstacles [1][2][3][4] , and climate change is slipping in public importance in many countries 5,6 .Here we investigate a different approach, identifying whether potential co-benefits of addressing climate change 7 could motivate pro-environmental behaviour around the world for both those convinced and unconvinced that climate change is real.We describe an integrated framework for assessing beliefs about co-benefits 8 , distinguishing social conditions (for example, economic development, reduced pollution or disease) and community character (for example, benevolence, competence).Data from all inhabited continents (24 countries; 6,196 participants) showed that two co-benefit types, Development (economic and scientific advancement) and Benevolence (a more moral and caring community), motivated public, private and financial actions to address climate change to a similar degree as believing climate change is important.Critically, relationships were similar for both convinced and unconvinced participants, showing that co-benefits can motivate action across ideological divides.These relationships were also independent of perceived climate change importance, and could not be explained by political ideology, age, or gender.

    Relationships between co-benefits and action were independent of perceived climate change importance.

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    Benevolence effect sizes were relatively strong but were less variable across countries.

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    Unconvinced participants showed similar effects to those convinced, and were especially motivated by Development co-benefits.

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    The 'not applicable' choice was selected less than a third of the time for every item in every country.

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    In Norway and Sweden, the item 'Use car-sharing or car-pooling schemes' was rated as 'not applicable' by more than one-third of participants.

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    Pilot testing deemed the scenario where climate change was prevented unsuitable for unconvinced participants.

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    Unconvinced participants showed similar or stronger effects for co-benefits related to societal conditions, and similar or weaker effects for character co-benefits compared to convinced participants.

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    Scales created to reflect each Schwartz value quadrant showed low reliabilities across many countries and were excluded from analyses.

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    • cites [31] Schwartz, S. H. in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology Vol. 25 (ed. Zanna, M. P.) 1–65 (Academic Press, 1992).

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    For those convinced that climate change is real, co-benefit effects were independent of believing climate change is important, yet were of comparable strength in motivating action.

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    Development showed the strongest effect sizes for citizenship and personal actions and a weaker effect for donations.

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    Country wealth and climate change contributions did not account for the variation in Development and Dysfunction effect sizes.

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    The vast majority of people viewed the behaviours as possible across the remaining items and countries.

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    Mitigation efforts can reduce pollution.

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    • cites [11] Nemet, G. F., Holloway, T. & Meier, P. Implications of incorporating air-quality co-benefits into climate change policymaking. Environ. Res. Lett. 5, 014007 (2010). source

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    • cites [12] West, J. J. et al. Co-benefits of mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions for future air quality and human health. Nature Clim. Change 3, 885–889 (2013). source

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    Mitigation efforts can support economic development through green industries.

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    • cites [13] UNEP Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication—A Synthesis for Policy Makers (2011); http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy

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    These issues are strongly linked to political ideology.

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    Communicating climate science is now failing to persuade those who remain unconvinced climate change is real.

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    Scale scores for personal sphere behavioural intentions were created where participants provided responses (excluding 'not applicable') for at least six items.

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    The number of unconvinced participants was relatively small.

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    Scale scores for environmental citizenship were created where participants provided answers (excluding 'not applicable') for at least six items.

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    Explanations of the variation in correlations for Development and Dysfunction remain to be established.

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    Overall participants believed these behaviours were possible in their country.

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    Participants completed a survey developed with feedback from country contributors for applicability and relevance.

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    Communicating the co-benefits of addressing climate change could provide a way to foster public action, and thereby influence government action, even among those unconvinced or unconcerned about climate change.

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    Environmental citizenship intentions items were taken from an existing measure.

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    The final personal sphere behavioural intentions scale was developed with feedback from contributors about local pro-environmental behaviours.

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    Importance and co-benefit messages may counteract each other when used together, at least for conservatives in the United States.

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    The strong and consistent findings across student and community samples, and across those convinced and unconvinced, give a firm basis for further research on these co-benefits.

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    Communicating Benevolence co-benefits is likely to have the most consistent effects for a worldwide audience, but in some countries emphasizing Development may have greater impact.

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    Translations were obtained using translation-back-translation by competent bilingual speakers, or using parallel translation where multiple bilingual speakers independently translated the survey.

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    The final environmental citizenship scale was adapted and extended based on feedback from contributors in the different countries.

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    The collective futures model is validated.

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    • cites [17] Bain, P. G., Hornsey, M. J., Bongiorno, R. & Jeffries, C. Promoting pro-environmental action in climate change deniers. Nature Clim. Change 2, 600–603 (2012). source

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    The climate change belief screening item was used in previous research.

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    In both translation approaches, discussion of discrepancies between the translators and the project coordinators continued until an acceptable translation was agreed on.

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    The personal sphere behavioural intentions scale was drawn from several sources.

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    • cites [32] Stern, P. C., Dietz, T., Abel, T., Guagnano, G. A. & Kalof, L. A value-belief-norm theory of support for social movements: The case of environmentalism. Hum. Ecol. Rev. 6, 81–97 (1999).

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    • cites [33] McDonald, R. I., Fielding, K. S. & Louis, W. R. Energizing and de-motivating effects of norm conflict. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull. 39, 57–72 (2012). source

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    • cites [34] Whitmarsh, L. & O’Neill, S. Green identity, green living? The role of pro-environmental self-identity in determining consistency across diverse pro-environmental behaviours. J. Environ. Psychol. 30, 305–314 (2010). source

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    All data meeting these criteria were included in analyses, except for a single extreme outlier in the Swedish 'unconvinced' sample.

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    Political ideology was measured using a single item from previous research.

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    • cites [35] Schwartz, S. et al. Basic personal values underlie and give coherence to political values: A cross national study in 15 countries. Polit. Behav. 36, 899–930 (2014). source

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    Analyses were conducted on participants who identified themselves as citizens of the country of data collection, and who identified as students (student samples) or non-students (community samples).

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    Communicating climate change importance may continue to be effective in promoting action in those convinced climate change is real, but less so in poorer countries.

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    Students typically occupy similar socio-economic positions across countries.

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    Climate change requires a global solution.

    “Second, climate change requires a global solution, but most co-benefits research has been conducted in Western countries”

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    Researchers have focused on some co-benefits, such as reduced pollution or economic development, without an integrated approach to understand how co-benefits are related and comparing their importance for motivating public action.

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  • Highlighting the co-benefits of common practices and expanding them creates an opportunity to tangibly reduce embodied carbon.

    “First, highlighting the co-benefits of common practices and expanding them creates an opportunity to tangibly reduce embodied carbon (Bain et al. 2016;Karlsson et al. 2020).”

    From Making embodied carbon mainstream: a framework for cities to leverage waste, equity, and preservation policy to reduce embodied emissions in buildings (2023) · cites this paper as Bain et al. 2016

    The section on communicating co-benefits says highlighting them may motivate climate-change action; the paper also examines intentions to take personal actions such as conserving energy. It does not establish that expanding common practices tangibly reduces embodied carbon: its measures concern motivation and intended behaviour, not measured carbon reductions (no page number is available in our copy). (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Bain, P. G., Milfont, T. L., Kashima, Y., Bilewicz, M., Doron, G., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., Gouveia, V. V., Guan, Y., Johansson, L.-O., Pasquali, C., Corral-Verdugo, V., Aragones, J. I., Utsugi, A., Demarque, C., Otto, S., Park, J., Soland, M., Steg, L., González, R., Lebedeva, N., Madsen, O. J., Wagner, C., Akotia, C. S., Kurz, T., Saiz, J. L., Schultz, P. W., Einarsdóttir, G., & Saviolidis, N. M.
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Corresponding author
Bain, Paul G.
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Venue
Nature Climate Change
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2015-09-28
Volume
6
Issue
2
Pages
154-157
ISSN
  • 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
  • 1758-6798
DOI
10.1038/nclimate2814
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Language
en
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  • Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki (IP2014 002273)
  • National Research University Higher School of Economics (5‐100)
  • Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social (15130009)
  • Australian Research Council (DP130102229, DP0984678)
  • Fondo de Financiamiento de Centros de Investigación en Áreas Prioritarias (# 15130009)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
Keywords
pro-environmental behavior, political ideology, economic development, climate change communication, gender and age differences

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Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

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