Psychology of climate change

L Steg - Annual Review of Psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Human behavior plays a critical role in causing global climate change as well as in
responding to it. In this article, I review important insights on the psychology of climate …

Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation

KS Nielsen, V Cologna, JM Bauer, S Berger… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Behavioural science has yielded insights about the actions of individuals, particularly as
consumers, that affect climate change. Behaviours in other spheres of life remain …

Three decades of climate mitigation: why haven't we bent the global emissions curve?

I Stoddard, K Anderson, S Capstick… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and
catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to …

Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation

F Creutzig, J Roy, P Devine-Wright, J Díaz-José… - 2022 - espace.curtin.edu.au
Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

[PDF][PDF] Europe: from Chapters and Cross-Chapter Papers

B Bednar-Friedl, GR Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2022 - edepot.wur.nl
Our current 1.1 C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Behaviour change to address climate change

L Whitmarsh, W Poortinga, S Capstick - Current opinion in psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Addressing climate change requires profound behaviour change, not only in consumer
action, but also in action as members of communities and organisations, and as citizens who …

Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting

R Hoffmann, R Muttarak, J Peisker, P Stanig - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Public support is fundamental in scaling up actions to limit global warming. Here, we
analyse how the experience of climate extremes influences people's environmental attitudes …

[HTML][HTML] When and how pro-environmental attitudes turn into behavior: The role of costs, benefits, and self-control

AM Wyss, D Knoch, S Berger - Journal of environmental psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite a strong consensus about humanity's responsibility for climate change, many
people fail to behave in line with their pro-environmental attitudes, and the question of how …

[HTML][HTML] Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally

K Minor, A Bjerre-Nielsen, SS Jonasdottir, S Lehmann… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Ambient temperatures are rising worldwide, with the greatest increases recorded at night.
Concurrently, the prevalence of insufficient sleep is rising in many populations. Yet it …

[HTML][HTML] Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda

C Wamsler, G Osberg, W Osika, H Herndersson… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is an increasing threat to sustainable development worldwide. However, the
dominant incremental policy approaches have not generated action at anywhere near the …