Uncertainty about Carbon Impact and the Willingness to Avoid CO₂ Emissions

Pace, D. Davide; Imai, Taisuke; Schwardmann, Peter; Weele, van der Joël J.

Uncertainty about Carbon Impact and the Willingness to Avoid CO₂ Emissions

Pace, D. Davide; Imai, Taisuke; Schwardmann, Peter et al.

Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers, 2023, 1227, 1-21

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タイトル	Uncertainty about Carbon Impact and the Willingness to Avoid CO₂ Emissions
著者	著者名 Pace, D. Davide
	NRID 1000080971960 1000080971960 ORCID 0000-0002-0610-8093 0000-0002-0610-8093 researchmap permalink taisuke_imai taisuke_imai Scopus Author ID 57191989273 57191989273 著者名 Imai, Taisuke
	著者名 Schwardmann, Peter
	著者名 Weele, van der Joël J.
抄録	With a large representative survey (N = 1, 128), we document that consumers are very uncertain about the emissions associated with various actions, which may affect their willingness to reduce their carbon footprint. We experimentally test two channels for the behavioural impact of such uncertainty, namely risk aversion about the impact of mitigating actions and the formation of motivated beliefs about this impact. In two large online experiments (N = 2, 219), participants make incentivized trade-offs between personal gain and (uncertain) carbon impact. We find no evidence that uncertainty affects individual climate change mitigation efforts through risk aversion or motivated belief channels. The results suggest that reducing consumer uncertainty through information campaigns is not a policy panacea and that communicating scientific uncertainty around climate impact need not backfire.
出版者	The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
収録物名	Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers
巻(号)	1227
ページ	1-21
刊行年月	2023-12
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/93496
PISSN	0473453X
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