Your trusted inner circle is one of the most potent and overlooked weapons to stave off the worst of climate change. Those comparisons could be as passive as observing a neighbor’s solar panels or receiving notices about household energy use. Last year, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change explicitly encouraged governments pushing climate change efforts to consider behavioral, social and cultural factors for the first time. Few rigorous studies have been done on why people change their climate behaviors. Various clean technologies share this characteristic, and many of them are cheaper than their fossil-fuel counterparts over a lifetime.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2023 19:09 UTC