Sovacool Benjamin K, Evensen Darrick, Baum Chad M, Fritz Livia, Low Sean
Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex Business School, Brighton, UK.
Commun Earth Environ. 2024;5(1):642. doi: 10.1038/s43247-024-01800-1. Epub 2024 Oct 29.
Climate intervention technologies such as carbon dioxide removal and solar geoengineering are becoming more actively considered as solutions to global warming. The demographic aspects of the public serve as a core determinant of social vulnerability and the ability for people to cope with, or fail to cope with, exposure to heat waves, air pollution, or disruptions in access to modern energy services. This study examines public preferences for 10 different climate interventions utilizing an original, large-scale, cross-country set of nationally representative surveys in 30 countries. It focuses intently on the demographic dimensions of gender, youth and age, poverty, and income as well as intersections and interactions between these categories. We find that support for the more engineered forms of carbon removal decreases with age. Gender has little effect overall. Those in poverty and the Global South are nearly universally more supportive of climate interventions of various types.
诸如二氧化碳去除和太阳能地球工程等气候干预技术正越来越多地被积极视为全球变暖的解决方案。公众的人口统计学特征是社会脆弱性以及人们应对或无法应对热浪、空气污染或现代能源服务获取中断的能力的核心决定因素。本研究利用在30个国家进行的一组原始的、大规模的、具有全国代表性的跨国调查，考察了公众对10种不同气候干预措施的偏好。它密切关注性别、青年与年龄、贫困和收入等人口统计学维度，以及这些类别之间的交叉和相互作用。我们发现，对更具工程性的碳去除形式的支持随着年龄的增长而减少。总体而言，性别影响不大。贫困人群和全球南方地区的人几乎普遍更支持各种类型的气候干预措施。
