Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policies: A Cross Country Survey

By Era Dabla-Norris, Salma Khalid, Giacomo Magistretti, Alexandre Sollaci

October 27, 2023

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Era Dabla-Norris, Salma Khalid, Giacomo Magistretti, and Alexandre Sollaci. Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policies: A Cross Country Survey, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2023) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

Building public support for climate mitigation is a key prerequisite to making meaningful strides toward decarbonization and achieving net-zero emissions. Using nationally representative, individual-level surveys for 28 countries, this paper identifies the current levels and drivers of support for climate mitigation policies. Controlling for individual characteristics, we find that pre-existing beliefs about policy efficacy, perceived costs and co-benefits (e.g., cleaner air), and the degree of policy progressivity are important drivers of support for carbon pricing policies. The knowledge gap about climate mitigation policies can be large, but randomized information experiments show that support increases (decreases) after individuals are introduced to new information on the benefits (potential costs) of such policies.

Subject: Climate change, Climate policy, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions

Keywords: Carbon pricing, Climate change, Climate mitigating policy, Climate mitigation policies, Climate policy, Europe, Experiments, Global, Greenhouse gas emissions, IMF working paper 23/223, Mitigation policy, Policy progressivity, Survey

Publication Details

Pages:

49
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Working Paper No. 2023/223
Stock No:

WPIEA2023223
ISBN:

9798400258138
ISSN:

1018-5941

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