Underestimating support for climate action limits political decisions, it says work | Climate crisis

According to the study, politicians and policy makers significantly underestimate the desire to contribute to the climate action and to limit the passion and scope of green policies.

The delegates in the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) were asked to predict that they were willing to give 1% of their income to help correct climate change. The average forecast was 37%, but recent research Real figure 69%.

The same research thought that 89% should do more to fight global warming ”.

Findings call for a former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair, who claims that emission reduction policies are deprived of public support, to reset climate policy.

For work writers, the great inequality between perceived and real figures was worried about the fact that they call it “pluralist ignorance ,, where people systematically underestimated the willingness of other citizens to act on one issue led to the maintenance of the status quo.

Considering that the UNEA questionnaire group, which has 191 delegates from 53 countries, consisted of individuals with a higher level of personal participation and climate expertise, including 24 active policy negotiators, 191 delegates from 53 countries, it was particularly surprising for researchers. However, 83% of the delegates participating in the survey admit that the individual members of the people had the ability to perform meaningful climatic action.

According to the authors, the findings of the study have two main effects. Oxford University, the chief author of the study, from Saïd Business School. “They stated that there was a disconnection between the perceptions of the policy makers and the views of the people they act,” Ximeng Fang said.

Dr. Oxford’s Smith Enterprise and the Environmental School. Stefania Innocenti said: “Policy makers will try to play safely if they think that they do not have a public duty… They will try to play safely and dilute their bold policy offers. The greatness of this result is a call for action… If we do not close this gap, we will result in Embgs.”

Secondly, Fang said that policy makers should give priority to talking about climate solutions and how to realize them.

“Net Zero is not only possible, but also economically logical, Fang said Fang, the key is to convince people by informing them about these potential benefits, he added. The authors believe that the “false perception gap” can be closed by creating climatic stories that centralized optimism and hope, and thus oppose the impact of the news media through certain ideological perspectives ..

George Mason University is another joint author of the Climate Change Communication Center. “I hope our research encourages policy officials to be brave and maintain more ambitious climate policies. There is more public support than the difference.”