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The causal effect of private and organizational climate-related identity on climate protection activities : evidence from a framed field experiment in Japan
Arimura, Toshihide; Groh, Elke D.; Nakai, Miwa; … - 2022
Based on data for more than 2,400 citizens in Japan, this paper empirically examines the effect of climate-related identity in private and organizational contexts on revealed climate protec-tion activities, measured through incentivized donations. To identify causal effects, we include the...
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Adaptation for mitigation
Ikefuji, Masako; Magnus, Jan R.; Sakamoto, Hiroaki - 2014
assistance to South (thus enhancing South’s adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459889
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Adaptation for mitigation
Ikefuji, Masako; Magnus, Jan R.; Sakamoto, Hiroaki - 2014
assistance to South (thus enhancing South's adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408468
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Social norms and individual climate protection activities : a framed field experiment for Germany
Engler, Daniel; Gutsche, Gunnar; Simixhiu, Amantia; … - 2022
Based on the well-known observation that social norms can guide individual behavior, this paper empirically examines the causal effect of related information interventions on revealed climate protection activities, measured through incentivized donations. In our field-experi-mental setting, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337357
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Identity and Voluntary Efforts for Climate Protection
Gleue, Marvin; Harrs, Sören; Feldhaus, Christoph; … - 2022
Voluntary contributions to public goods may be motivated by a desire to be a moral person, or in other words, by identity concerns. In a field experiment (N=373) we test how positive and negative shocks to subjects' environmental identity affect voluntary efforts for climate protection. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293637
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The demand for climate protection: An empirical assessment for Germany
Löschel, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo; Vogt, Carsten - 2010
In this paper, we investigate the real demand for climate protection. For this purpose we conducted a framed field experiment with a sample of the residential population in Mannheim, Germany. Participants were endowed with € 40 and given the opportunity to contribute to climate protection by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302592
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The influence of collective action on the demand for voluntary climate change mitigation in hypothetical and real situations
Sturm, Bodo; Uehleke, Reinhard - 2015
In this experiment, we investigate determinants of the individual demand for voluntary climate change mitigation … demand for voluntary climate change mitigation. In case of the individual decision situation this bias is caused solely by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300744
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Knowledge about aerosol injection does not reduce individual mitigation efforts
Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2015
undermine commitment to the mitigation of greenhouse gases (Lawrence & Crutzen 2013; Schneider 2001). Policymakers, interest … groups or individuals might wrongly perceive SAI as an easy fix for climate change and accordingly reduce their mitigation … field experiment with more than 650 participants, we show that people do not back-pedal on mitigation when they learn that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334589
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Not in my backyard : CCS storage sites and public perception of CCS
Braun, Carola - 2016
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technology that counteracts climate change by capturing atmospheric emissions of CO2 from human activities, storing them in geological formations underground. However, CCS also involves major risks and side effects, and faces strong public opposition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444385
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Revealed preferences for climate protection when the purely individual perspective is relaxed : evidence from a framed field experiment
Löschel, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo; Uehleke, Reinhard - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the real demand for climate protection when the purely individual perspective of existing revealed preference studies is relaxed. This is achieved in two treatments; first, we determine the information subjects receive about the demand revealed by other subjects in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009704255