A new hope or phantom menace? Exploring climate emotions and public support for climate interventions across 30 countries.

ABSTRACT: Emotions are central to human experiences of climate change. Empirical research demonstrates their importance for climate perceptions and climate-related behaviors. The intensifying severity of climate change prompts consideration of emerging, potentially controversial technologies. Alongside mitigation and adaptation, climate intervention proposes to remove carbon dioxide from ambient air (carbon dioxide removal, CDR) or reflect sunlight away from the Earth (solar radiation modification, SRM). Although such options arouse emotional reactions of diverse kinds, the intersection between climate emotions and climate intervention has received limited attention. This article employed a unique, global dataset with 30,284 participants across 30 countries (in 19 languages) to provide insights on 3

SUBMITTER: Baum CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12411122 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature