Malerba Daniele
German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Eur J Dev Res. 2022;34(3):1358-1382. doi: 10.1057/s41287-022-00537-x. Epub 2022 May 6.
Significant climate change mitigation policies are urgently needed to achieve emissions reduction targets. This paper shows that social protection and social cohesion play a critical role in making climate policies more acceptable to citizens by summarizing existing streams of research focusing on industrialized countries. Further, the empirical analysis explores whether these relationships also hold for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which are increasingly implementing climate change mitigation policies. The results show that vertical and horizontal trust increase acceptability in all countries. However, preferences for social protection have a positive effect only in industrialized ones. This may suggest a contrast between social and environmental goals in LMICs, where social goals are prioritized. The analysis also revealed a significant interaction between social cohesion and social protection. The paper concludes by discussing the existing research gap as to LMICs and outlines policy options to overcome the conflict between social and environmental goals.
迫切需要重大的气候变化缓解政策来实现减排目标。本文通过总结现有针对工业化国家的研究成果表明，社会保护和社会凝聚力在使气候政策更易被公民接受方面发挥着关键作用。此外，实证分析探讨了这些关系是否也适用于越来越多地实施气候变化缓解政策的低收入和中等收入国家（LMICs）。结果表明，纵向和横向信任在所有国家都能提高接受度。然而，对社会保护的偏好仅在工业化国家具有积极影响。这可能表明在优先考虑社会目标的低收入和中等收入国家，社会目标与环境目标之间存在差异。分析还揭示了社会凝聚力与社会保护之间存在显著的相互作用。本文最后讨论了关于低收入和中等收入国家的现有研究差距，并概述了克服社会与环境目标之间冲突的政策选择。
