Kristian Steensen Nielsen

Politiken dækkede rapporten med en helside af Magnus Bredsdorff, der også bragte gode perspektiver fra @kristiansn89.bsky.social og Peter Møllgaard.

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A figure showing all ghg emissions rising

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.

This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.

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Climate impact perceptions and associations with reported behaviors and policy support in three countries To accelerate climate change mitigation, substantial lifestyle changes and more ambitious climate policies are urgently needed. However, realizing beh…

📄 Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Huge thanks to Nina Frings for excellently leading the paper and to @zah-rahmani.bsky.social and Ulf Hahnel for the great collaboration!

Low carbon literacy highlights the potential gap between motivation and effectiveness in climate action.

Many people want to help but lack accurate cues about which behaviors matter most. Correcting such cues may help mobilize collective effort toward the most effective climate actions. (7/8)

🗳️ Policy support varies by context:
Accurate impact perceptions were linked to stronger support for climate policies in Germany, but this relationship was weaker or politically moderated in the United States and absent in China. (6/8)

🚗🥩✈️ Behavior matters:
Participants with lower carbon footprints also tended to judge carbon footprints more accurately. This suggests that one's own behavior and climate impact perceptions may reinforce each other. (5/8)

🌐 Cross-country differences:
Participants in Germany were most accurate overall, followed by China and the United States — possibly reflecting differences in public discourse, norms, and infrastructure. (4/8)

⚖️ Widespread misperceptions:
Across countries, people underestimated the impact of high-carbon behaviors like flying, eating meat, and electricity supply, while overestimating the impact of low-impact actions such as recycling.

These findings perfectly align with previous studies. (3/8)

Using a new experimental design, we examined how accurately people judge the carbon footprints of different lifestyles and behaviors — and how these perceptions relate to reported behaviors and support for climate policies.

Here’s what we found...🥁 (2/8)

Climate impact perceptions and associations with reported behaviors and policy support in three countries To accelerate climate change mitigation, substantial lifestyle changes and more ambitious climate policies are urgently needed. However, realizing beh…

✈️🥩♻️ How accurately do people perceive the #climate impact of different lifestyles — and how do those perceptions relate to their own behavior and policy preferences?

Our new study investigated exactly this in China, Germany, and the US.🧵
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A great thread I had previously missed 👇

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

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Thanks a lot for sharing, Dana 🙂

A must read for anyone who wants to understand behavior change as a part of climate action 👇

💡 And in exploratory analyses, people who viewed a behavior as more feasible to change also expected it to improve their well-being.

📄 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 Social environments, especially descriptive norms and family goal support, consistently predict both current behaviors and perceived feasibility.

🏙️ Physical environments matter too, but effects are more varied (e.g., transport access influencing driving or public transport use)...

📊 Using survey data from 1,202 UK adults, we explored how physical (e.g., infrastructure, accessibility) and social environments (e.g., norms, goal support) shape both actual behaviors and perceived feasibility of change.

We find that... 🥁

⭐ After quite some time in the making, I’m excited to share our new paper!🌿⭐

We examined people's climate-relevant behaviors (driving, air travel, public transport use, and meat consumption) and their perceptions of how feasible it would be to change them (+ expected wellbeing impacts).

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That's kind of you to say :)

This! 🔥👇 Couldn't agree more, thank you @kristiansn89.bsky.social

Systems change is brought about by the collective actions of individuals.

So individual actions, when supporting systems change, is absolutely fundamental to climate action.

This is spot on. Taking action in my personal life also provides me with a sense of purpose and progress when the broader world often disappoints. Always remember, you make a difference.

Olieselskabernes værste fjende er grøn, folkelig handling Løsningen på olieselskabernes manglende klimamål er systemisk, men politikerne gør ikke noget, så længe borgerne ikke kræver det. Derfor skal vi borgere indse, at den systemiske forandring kun sker me...

So in short… personal change will never save the world on its own, but it is indispensable if we want the systemic change that can!

That is why the head of the OPEC has also claimed individual actions to be their biggest enemy! They know this!

I cannot agree more Kristian!

I think you miss one thing though...

Western democracy is build short term renewed power intervals. That means power needs to take notes of what the people wants. And when people show power that they want change, by changing, change can happen. If they dont. It wont!

I completely agree, @larskohler.bsky.social. People's behavior and willingness to change send powerful political signals. It's highly unlikely that ambitious climate policies will be adopted and implemented without public support (at least in democratic states).

This is a really important point. Changing these behaviours now does two things:
1.Makes a start on the drastic lifestyle changes and gets communities thinking creatively and in solidarity
2. Sends a strong political message to #government and #business

A much more eloquently put thread on a point I continually find myself trying to make! #individualaction #lifestylechangenotclimatechange #flightfree

Excellent thread. I agree 100% with this set of actions.

Every item I recycled, every option to avoid fossil fuel use, every alternative to electricity use, adds up over the years. Multiply by millions of people, it quickly adds up.

Paper packaging, aluminum containers, plant based cleaners…

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a dinosaur is holding a sign that says make the fossil fuel industry go extinct ALT: a dinosaur is holding a sign that says make the fossil fuel industry go extinct

In the end, the last thing the fossil fuel industry wants is for people to stop using their products. So let's make that happen!

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