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Speaker: Tobias KRUSE Date and Location – Thursday April 20th 2023 from 14:00 to 15:0<\/strong>0 —————————————–<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>OECD<\/i><\/p>\n
\nin Lille campus (R217) and on Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\nABSTRACT<\/h2>\n
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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 centred around the effectiveness of the policies in reducing emissions (effectiveness concerns), their distributional impacts on lower-income households (inequality concerns), and their impact on the respondents\u2019 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 from them 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 \u2013 most notably education, political leanings, and availability of public transportation \u2013 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.<\/p>\n