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8 avril 2022
- handle: 10670/1.q4g397
- isbn: 9781800642607
- eisbn: 9791036587917
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Lorraine Whitmarsh, « 27. Public Engagement with Radical Climate Change Action », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.q4g397
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The role of people in addressing climate change is often relegated to merely consumers. While adopting electric vehicles and heat pumps, for example, will indeed be critical for reaching climate targets, people will also need to engage as political, social and professional actors to achieve the scale of societal transformation needed. This includes actively engaging in both decision-making and in delivery in respect of climate action. Here, I discuss the varied roles that the public can play in decision-making and in taking rapid and radical climate action, their current levels of engagement with climate change, and how to foster further public action. I argue that we have a unique opportunity as we build back society post-COVID-19 to lock in low-carbon habits created during the pandemic, and to build on the growing social mandate for bold policy action to support sustainable lifestyles.