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The role of framing in public support for direct air capture: A moral hazard survey experiment in the United States

Sloot, Daniel ORCID iD icon 1; Bostrom, Ann
1 Institut für Industriebetriebslehre und Industrielle Produktion (IIP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Limiting global warming will likely require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and keeping it out of the atmosphere by sequestering it. Public support is crucial for a rapid upscaling of carbon removal and sequestration. One central concern is that public support for these negative emissions technologies (NETs) could be hampered by a moral hazard: that NETs could undermine mitigation efforts and should thus be avoided. Building on previous research, we investigate four novel ways of framing the use of a form of carbon removal from the atmosphere that is currently of broad interest, direct air capture (DAC). We frame DAC use in terms of either necessity (DAC for limiting climate change being either essential or dependent on future mitigation) or temporality (DAC of either past or future emissions from the atmosphere). In a survey experiment with a nationally representative U.S. sample (N = 2891) we examined how these frames affect public support and risk perceptions in the U.S. for DAC, and the roles of prior awareness of DAC, climate change worry, and their interactions with the different frames. Frames differentially influenced support depending on prior awareness and climate change worry, higher levels of which were associated with more support for DAC (but also greater anticipated moral hazard) independent of the frames. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000173674
Veröffentlicht am 27.08.2024
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Industriebetriebslehre und Industrielle Produktion – Deutsch-Französisches Institut für Umweltforschung (DFIU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 10.2024
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2214-6296, 2214-6326
KITopen-ID: 1000173674
Erschienen in Energy Research and Social Science
Verlag Elsevier
Band 116
Seiten Art.-NR.: 103694
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 29.07.2024
Nachgewiesen in Web of Science
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