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Increase in concerns about climate change following climate strikes and civil disobedience in Germany

  • Climate movements have gained momentum in recent years, aiming to create public awareness of the consequences of climate change through salient climate protests. This paper investigates whether concerns about climate change increase following demonstrative protests and confrontational acts of civil disobedience. Leveraging individual-level survey panel data from Germany, we exploit exogenous variations in the timing of climate protests relative to survey interview dates to compare climate change concerns in the days before and after a protest (N = 24,535). Following climate protests, we find increases in concerns about climate change by, on average, 1.2 percentage points. Further, we find no statistically significant evidence that concerns of any subpopulation decreased after climate protests. Lastly, the increase in concerns following protests is highest when concern levels before the protests are low.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Johannes BrehmORCiD, Henri Gruhl
Parent Title (English):Nature Communications
Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication year:2024
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46477-4
Release Date:2024/09/04
Volume:15
Article Number:2916
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Centre for Sustainability
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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