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| DOI | 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114060 |
| Carbon literacy - Can simple interventions help? Effect of information provision on emissions knowledge of private households | |
| Kretschmer, Sandra | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| ISSN | 0301-4215 |
| EISSN | 1873-6777 |
| 起始页码 | 188 |
| 卷号 | 188 |
| 英文摘要 | Understanding public perceptions of various carbon abatement behaviours and how these can be influenced with informational interventions is an essential prerequisite to encourage low-carbon behaviour. By means of a survey experiment among a representative sample of 1492 German households, I evaluate individual carbon literacy, i.e. the ability to perceive the carbon emissions associated with individual actions, based on a ranking task of abatement behaviours. Using two treatment interventions, I test whether simple information provision in the form of a ranking of the most carbon-intense household actions or a heuristic for carbon intensities can correct misperceptions and thus increase carbon literacy. The results show that Germans severely underestimate the abatement potential of reduced meat consumption, avoiding food waste, and to a lesser extent of not driving a car, while they overestimate the potential of recycling and avoiding plastic bags. While the heuristic fails to increase carbon literacy, the ranking does so by a significant amount. In particular, it corrects the perceptions of the top mitigating actions. However, the severe underestimation of a vegetarian diet and avoiding food waste persists. This indicates that especially the underestimation of food-related emissions is deep-rooted. |
| 英文关键词 | Carbon literacy; Information provision; Low-carbon behaviour; Emissions knowledge; Climate change |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
| WOS类目 | Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001221204700001 |
| 来源期刊 | ENERGY POLICY
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/294659 |
| 作者单位 | University of Erlangen Nuremberg |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kretschmer, Sandra. Carbon literacy - Can simple interventions help? Effect of information provision on emissions knowledge of private households[J],2024,188. |
| APA | Kretschmer, Sandra.(2024).Carbon literacy - Can simple interventions help? Effect of information provision on emissions knowledge of private households.ENERGY POLICY,188. |
| MLA | Kretschmer, Sandra."Carbon literacy - Can simple interventions help? Effect of information provision on emissions knowledge of private households".ENERGY POLICY 188(2024). |
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