Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 77, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101658
Keywords
Climate adaptation; Climate mitigation; Compensatory effect; Moral licensing; Attitude; Global climate change; the Campbell Paradigm
Funding
- LIFE Programme of the European Union [LIFE17 GIC/CZ/000107]
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Adaptation and mitigation are both important in addressing climate change, and studies suggest that they may complement rather than hinder each other. Prior focus on adaptation measures may increase the tendency to engage in subsequent mitigation behavior.
Adaptation and mitigation are both essential components of strategies that aim to decrease risks associated with climate change. A number of existing studies, however, suggest that the two might be negatively affecting each other - climate adaptation might decrease mitigation efforts and vice versa. We have examined these effects in five experimental studies carried out in four countries (total N = 4,800) and have used Bayesian analysis to evaluate the strength of empirical support for such effects. We did not find any evidence that compensation between climate mitigation and adaptation takes place. On the contrary, we found some evidence, albeit rather weak, that prior focus on adaptation measures increases the subsequent tendency to engage in mitigation behavior; this effect is likely to be driven by an increase in worry about the impacts of climate change that results from a prior focus on climate adaptation. If anything, offering adaptation options may increase the tendency to mitigate climate change.
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