Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world

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Art der Publikation: Journal Article

Veröffentlicht auf / in: Nature Climate Change

Jahr: 2025

Band / Volume: 13

Verlag (Publisher): Springer Nature

Autoren

Victoria Cologna

Simona Meiler

Chahan Kropf

André Calero Valdez

Lilian Kojan

TISP Consortium

Zusammenfassung

Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. Yet, little is known about the relationship between exposure to extreme events, subjective attribution of these events to climate change, and climate policy support, especially in the Global South. Combining large-scale natural and social science data from 68 countries (N = 71,922), we develop a measure of exposed population to extreme weather events and investigate whether exposure to extreme weather and subjective attribution of extreme weather to climate change predict climate policy support. We find that most people support climate policies and link extreme weather events to climate change. Subjective attribution of extreme weather was positively associated with policy support for five widely discussed climate policies. However, exposure to most types of extreme weather event did not predict policy support. Overall, these results suggest that subjective attribution could facilitate climate policy support.

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