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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Science
  • Sociology
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Meeting climate targets necessitates both individual and systemic changes.
  • Current metrics like personal carbon footprints often overlook crucial public-sphere actions (e.g., influence, citizenship).
  • A gap exists in comprehensively measuring individuals' capacity for climate action beyond personal consumption.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To operationalize a framework integrating individual motivation and capacity for emissions reduction within systems of provision.
  • To develop and present a methodology for quantifying public-sphere actions and capabilities alongside consumption behaviors.
  • To generate a comprehensive climate action capability score.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a novel methodology to quantify public-sphere climate actions and capabilities.
  • Integrated this with assessments of consumption behaviors.
  • Applied the methodology to a representative survey of 2001 UK residents.

Main Results:

  • Found moderate-to-low overall climate action capability among UK residents.
  • Identified lowest capability scores in the transport, food, and civic domains.
  • Regression analysis showed gender, education, and climate knowledge significantly predict higher capability.

Conclusions:

  • The developed methodology provides an integrated tool to assess both private and public climate actions.
  • Findings highlight areas for targeted engagement and policy interventions to enhance climate action capability.
  • This approach offers a more holistic understanding of climate action potential beyond individual consumption.