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Consumption, Happiness, and Climate Change
Cohen, Mark A. - 2012
In this article, we explore the implications of this literature for understanding the relationship between climate change policies and consumption. We identify a number of ways in which accounting for the implications of the new happiness literature could lead to laws and policies that influence...
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The impact of climate on life satisfaction
Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2010
We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values … significantly lower levels of life satisfaction. This finding is robust to a wide variety of model specifications. Using our results … African countries, but modest gains for Northern Europe. -- Climate ; climate change ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; survey …
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Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries
Cappelli, Federica - 2024
The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical and empirical levels. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of changes in the full spectre of income distribution on consumptionbased CO2 emissions per capita. To...
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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty
van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
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Citizens' perceptions of justice in international climate policy : an empirical analysis
Schleich, Joachim; Dütschke, Elisabeth; Schwirplies, … - 2014
Relying on a recent survey of more than 3300 participants from China, Germany and the US, this paper empirically analyzes citizens' perceptions of climate change and climate policy, focusing on key guiding principles for sharing mitigation costs across countries. The ranking of the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233582
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Citizens' perceptions of justice in international climate policy : empirical insights from China, Germany and the US
Schleich, Joachim; Dütschke, Elisabeth; Schwirplies, … - 2014
Relying on a recent survey of more than 3300 participants from China, Germany and the US, this paper empirically analyzes citizens' perceptions of climate change and climate policy, focusing on key guiding principles for sharing mitigation costs across countries. The ranking of the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010240681
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Citizens' perceptions of justice in international climate policy : an empirical analysis
Schleich, Joachim; Dütschke, Elisabeth; Schwirplies, … - In: Climate policy 16 (2016) 1/4, pp. 50-67
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Towards transformative climate justice : key challenges and future directions for research
Newell, Peter; Srivastava, Shilpi; Naess, Lars Otto; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500596
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When Does Self-Interest Motivate Political Engagement? The Case of Climate Change
Levine, Adam - 2017
Past work finds that material self-interest often motivates increased issue engagement. In this paper we identify an important condition under which the opposite can occur. When people see an issue as threatening to harm material well-being, and they are already facing related resource...
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The role of risk climate and ethical self-interest climate in predicting unethical pro-organisational behaviour
Sheedy, Elizabeth A.; Garcia, Patrick; Jepsen, Denise - In: Journal of business ethics : JBE 173 (2021) 2, pp. 281-300
Unethical pro-organisational behaviour (UPB) is an ongoing concern, prompting the need for more nuanced understanding of the workplace environment most likely to inhibit it. This study considers the role of risk climate, sometimes referred to as risk culture, as well as ethical climate, for...
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