Global carbon pricing study shows climate policy can cut emissions 🌍, boost welfare 💰, and reduce inequality ⚖️ if paired with fair redistribution, either through uniform prices with transfers or differentiated national prices with revenue recycling.

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Climate policies can backfire by eroding “green” values, study finds 🌍📉💚

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😟 Feeling fearful about climate change may increase support for related policies, according to new ARU research.

😞 However, feelings of dread, described as an overwhelming form of fear with a sense of inevitability, were linked to less support for climate policies.

🔬 The study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, involved 418 UK participants and is the first to examine how momentary emotions influence climate change beliefs and policy support.

👩‍🔬 Female participants reported stronger beliefs in climate change and greater policy support compared to men.

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Current climate models rely on unproven tech because they refuse to question economic growth. A new framework for "post-growth" scenarios shows that prioritizing basic needs over GDP could satisfy universal well-being using less than half of current global energy and materials.

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Stabilizing time-lagged climate impacts requires net-negative emissions for centuries

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New study confirms 'private solution trap' in addressing climate change. Wealthy prefers private (adaptation) solutions to protect themselves rather than supporting public (mitigation) solutions. Such behavior worsens wealthy inequality and leave poor unprotected.

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The EU carbon market could drive the removal of 86 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2050. A new study suggests that integrating carbon capture technologies into existing trading systems would stabilize prices and provide a market-based solution for "hard-to-clean" industrial sectors.

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Investing in wind and solar provides several times more climate and health benefits per dollar than Direct Air Capture (DAC). A new peer-reviewed study warns that grid-connected DAC can even increase local air pollution unless the grid is fully clean.

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Television news coverage of climate policy is limited and polarized in the US. Two-thirds of Americans want action on climate change. But some news networks are highly polarized in their coverage. For example, Fox mostly covered opposing views.

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📺 Two-thirds of US television news segments on climate change do not mention policy, limiting discussions of solutions.

🔬 A CIRES-led study analyzed 7 major TV networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC, PBS) from April 2020 to April 2021, finding that policy is often absent from climate change coverage.

📊 While 71% of policy mentions supported climate action, mirroring public opinion, coverage varied significantly by network, with CNN showing mostly supportive or neutral views and Fox presenting mostly opposing views.

#ClimatePolicy #NewsCoverage #EnvironmentalNews

Florida’s ‘war on woke’ reframed responsible investment as a threat to ‘everyday people’. Fossil fuel companies were a major force behind the Florida’s move to stop banks and pension funds from investing in companies that prioritised environmental and social governance, new research found.

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Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

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Climate scientists who argue against government regulations to reduce carbon emissions genuinely believe that free markets protect political freedom and democracy in the West. The oil lobby exploits such free market beliefs among experts to fuel "the carbon combustion complex" and climate denialism.

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When Americans believe government works, they are more likely to act on climate. The study of more than 32,000 Americans found that Republicans reported lower efficacy beliefs overall, particularly lower confidence that governments can effectively address climate change.

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Past emissions from top polluters will continue warming the planet for decades to come. Future fossil fuel production will exacerbate climate disasters for many decades to come, so new legal battles about who is accountable should be expected for many years

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Research from Harvard Kennedy School professors reveals that taxing the world’s biggest polluting industries could cut emissions while generating nearly $200 billion a year in public revenue

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