Gonzalo Palomo Vélez

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It’s not just about the fuel: it also matters who produces hydrogen Hydrogen is increasingly promoted as a clean energy carrier that could help replace fossil fuels in key sectors. Yet its success depends not only on...

"Building public trust in #hydrogen is not only about the energy carrier itself, but also about who is producing it and why" - our colleague @gpalomovelez.bsky.social spoke about his recent paper on reputation management and hydrogen, in a nice interview with the Wubbo Ockels School at @rug.nl

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Here it is the link to chapter:

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

I’m especially grateful to José Sandoval-Díaz and Rodolfo Mardones Barrera for the kind invitation and for coordinating the work, and to Laís Pinto de Carvalho for bringing a southern, politically critical, and reflexive perspective to the chapter.

🧠 Writing this chapter was a real personal challenge for me, as I usually approach research questions from a (post)positivist and quantitative angle. Yet, this collaboration allowed me to question myself about the different ways of knowing and doing research. 🤝

📘 We have a new book chapter out, where we reflect on the quantitative–qualitative binarism in methods commonly used in environmental psychology — and the onto-epistemic consequences of what often appears to be just a “technical coexistence.” 🔍

Publiek kiest voor groene waterstof, vertrouwen in producenten telt mee Het publiek accepteert vooral groene waterstof, opgewekt uit volledig hernieuwbare energie, terwijl blauwe waterstof, deels geproduceerd uit fossiele...

Thanks @rug.nl for highlighting @gpalomovelez.bsky.social's recent paper on acceptability of and trust in hydrogen producers!

In short: it depends on whether the hydrogen is green or blue, and whether the producers have a sustainable track record

www.rug.nl/gmw/news/250...

Análisis CR2 | Ciencia climática y ecoansiedad: Una mirada a la comunidad académica chilena | Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia - CR2

✒️Autores: Rodolfo Sapiains y Gabriela Azócar, #investigadoresCR2 y académicos de la Fac. de Cs. Sociales, @uchile.bsky.social; @gpalomovelez.bsky.social, #investigadorCR2 y postdoctoral de la U. de Groningen; y Roberto Rondanelli, #investigadorCR2 y académico del Depto. de Geofísica, #UCHILE

Do you trust your policymakers? Effects of competence- and integrity-based trust on perceptions of sustainable food policies in Chile and Germany In the global quest for containment of the climate crisis, government incentives and measures play an important role to promote consumers’ preferences…

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Our colleague postdoc @gpalomovelez.bsky.social is a co-author on another new paper out this week, about the role of competence and integrity when it comes to trust of #sustainable food policy in #Chile and #Germany:

Do you trust your policymakers? Effects of competence- and integrity-based trust on perceptions of sustainable food policies in Chile and Germany In the global quest for containment of the climate crisis, government incentives and measures play an important role to promote consumers’ preferences…

We just returned the proofs, but in the meantime, you can check the pre-proof version here (free for everyone):

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Sustainability #FoodPolicy #PublicTrust #CrossCultural #ClimatePolicy @epgroningen.bsky.social @cr2uchile.bsky.social

✨Takeaway: For sustainability policies to succeed, it’s not just about good design—it’s about whether people trust the institutions behind them, which partly determines how they perceive and support these policies.

- Competence-based trust matters only for policy acceptance in Chile.
- No clear differential patterns emerged as a function of policy type (information-based vs. market-based).

**These results control for general trust in political institutions and perceived corruption.

🔑 Key insights:

- In Germany, information-based policies were believed to be more effective than market-based policies, while in Chile, the reverse was true.

- Integrity-based trust is central for shaping acceptance in Germany and effectiveness in both countries.

⚠️ Disclaimer: Our pre-registered analysis didn’t go exactly as planned, so the following findings should be seen as exploratory.

either honest vs. dishonest conduct. Afterwards, participants rated both market- and information-based policies suggested by the expert group in terms of acceptance and perceived effectiveness.

Participants read about an expert group, presented as being responsible, on behalf of the central government, for designing sustainable food policies. The group’s competence and integrity were manipulated through short descriptions highlighting either high vs. low expertise and...

In our new paper, we experimentally explored how integrity-based vs. competence-based trust influence acceptance and perceived effectiveness of market-based (e.g., taxes) and information-based (e.g., carbon labels) sustainable food policies in Chile and Germany.

New paper out! How does trust in institutions shape public views on sustainable food policies? And do these dynamics look the same across cultural contexts? 🌍

How company history and hydrogen type shape public trust and acceptability: A reputation management perspective Hydrogen is gaining interest as a clean energy source from both governments and fossil fuel companies. For hydrogen projects to succeed, securing publ…

The link to the paper (free to everyone):

sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Hydrogen #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Trust #Fossilfuels #ReputationManagement #PublicAcceptability
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Why (we think) this matters:

For hydrogen projects to succeed, it’s not enough to focus on the technology. The public is paying attention to who is behind the project, why they might be doing it, and what kind of hydrogen is planned to be produced.

Overall, we found:
🛢️Fossil fuel (vs. renewables) companies were less trusted, mainly because people saw them as doing hydrogen to polish their image.
🌱 Green hydrogen was more acceptable than blue, regardless of company history.
🔄 Company history shaped trust but not acceptability

🎯 Perceived motives (whether people believe the company wants to start producing hydrogen mainly to improve its image) 🤝 Trust in the company (overall, integrity-based, competence-based) ✅ Acceptability of hydrogen production (in general, and the specific case)

We tested these ideas in a pre-registered experiment, examining whether both the type of hydrogen to be produced and the company’s history influenced:

🌱 What kind of hydrogen is to be produced (green vs. blue)
🏭 Who wants to start producing it (a company with a history of working with renewables vs. fossil fuels)

🔎In this study, we proposed that public trust in institutions behind hydrogen production (and in turn, the acceptability of their projects) may depend on two key factors:

⚡Hydrogen has gained momentum as a potentially clean energy carrier, with some even calling it the “fuel of the future” but for a hydrogen-based energy transition to succeed, people need to trust the institutions behind its production first.

🚨We have a new publication out with Goda Perlaviciute, Nadja Contzen, Linda Steg in which we examined how key feaures of hydrogen production impact its public accetability and the extent people trust in the actors behind such production.

Now this article exploring climate change anxiety among climate-related researchers is finally published:

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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