A major research paper has explored the different reactions that young people have to climate change, depending on how the news is portrayed.
It was described in a piece in The Guardian.
A WebApp has been developed to share the interventions that were used.
As this Jigsaw piece explains:
Designing effective global behavioral interventions is a critical component of addressing climate change, but differences across cultures and geographies have had limited scalable solutions to date. While some behavioral interventions have shown promise in isolated experimental settings, comparing interventions between studies is complex, usually resulting in longstanding open debates about the relative effectiveness of interventions. Often, interventions are tested independently, with different samples, on different outcomes, and with a focus on western, educated samples from industrialized, rich, and developed countries.
It suggests that some interventions are more successful than others. This has some potential for guiding some of the work
Data and materials availability:
The data can be downloaded from https://zenodo.org/records/10345806. All data and code can also be found on GitHub (https://github.com/josephbb/ManyLabsClimate and https://github.com/mvlasceanu/ClimateTournament).
The interventions (in each language) can be accessed as qsf files (to be imported in Qualtrics): https://osf.io/ytf89/files/osfstorage/6454f8d771778511d9b0f48f.
A web tool for rapidly assessing which intervention is most likely to be effective at increasing climate change beliefs, policy support, information sharing, and tree-planting efforts, for any subsample target of interest, varying along demographics such as nationality, political ideology, age, gender, education, or income level can be found at https://climate-interventions.shinyapps.io/climate-interventions/.
All other data needed to evaluate the conclusions in this paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials.
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