4 - Knowledge & Understanding Of Climate Change & Climate Action
Knowledge & Understanding Of Climate Change & Climate Action
This section examines how ‘climate literate’ city residents are, how climate change is impacting their lives now and what indicative support there is for a sample of potential climate actions.
What impacts of climate change have people observed in their localities? How does the city contribute to climate change? People’s knowledge of this is crucial in being able to implement effective behavioural change initiatives Knowing city residents’ knowledge and understanding of climate change and climate action is crucial in being able to implement effective behavioural change initiatives and improving public bodies’ communications on these topics
Terms like ‘just transition’ and ‘net zero’ are frequently used but do people know what they mean?
This survey gauges support for several examples of more specific potential climate actions (eg support for reallocating road space for active travel, support for more tree planting) It also seeks to identify whether potential co-benefits of an action in health, economy etc would make residents more or less likely to support that action
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