The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents

Mitesh Kataria, Alan Krupnick, Elina Lampi, Åsa Löfgren, Ping Qin, Thomas Sterner, Xiaojun Yang and Fredrick Carlsson
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Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Joshua Linn, Dallas Burtraw, Kenneth Thomas Gillingham and Karen Palmer

No 21-02, RFF Working Paper Series from Resources for the Future

Abstract: Using identical surveys a decade apart, we examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate mitigation. Ten years ago, Sweden had a larger fraction of believers in anthropogenic climate change and a higher WTP for mitigation, but today the national averages are more similar. Although we find convergence in public support for climate policy across countries, there is considerable divergence in both WTP and climate attitudes within countries. Political polarization explains part of this divergence.

Date: 2021-01-12
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Journal Article: The climate decade: Changing attitudes on three continents (2021)
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