Green Values in Communities: How and why to engage individuals with decarbonisation targets

Michael Pollitt

Working Papers from Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge

Abstract: We suggest that engaging individuals and changing norms of behaviour will be crucial if substantial decarbonisation is to be achieved and if the full costs of climate change and related development challenges are to be willingly met by societies around the world. Engaging individuals and changing norms fundamentally relate to individual moral values. This brings us to a consideration of how organised religion can play a role in providing the moral basis for individual action in this area. We also suggest implications for how business will need to engage with the challenges posed by decarbonisation. Our discussion links the underlying ethical issues raised by The Economics of Climate Change (Stern, 2007) with Vandenbergh’s (2005) emphasis on the need for ‘personal norm activation’ to engage individuals in protecting the environment.

Keywords: Stern Review; decarbonisation; environmental ethics; personal norm activation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 Q54 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
Note: PRO-2
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