ABSTRACT

Understanding climate change beliefs across the political spectrum is a necessary prior step to assessing the acceptability of climate change policy. Using large national samples, we examine the change in stated Willingness to Pay for two different Australian climate policies (Direct Action and a Carbon Tax) between 2011 and 2016 and also examine stated Willingness to Pay for an Emissions Trading Scheme in 2016. We find evidence of convergence of Willingness to Pay according to voting intention in our 2016 survey. We also found increases in beliefs in human-induced climate change, scientific consensus, whether respondents believed they have personally experienced the effects of climate change and how worried they are about climate change. However, the proportion of respondents having these views remains small for some of these beliefs.

摘要

了解整个政治领域的气候变化信念是评估气候变化政策可接受性的必要先决步骤。我们使用大量的国家样本，研究了2011年至2016年间澳大利亚两种不同的气候政策（直接行动和碳税）的既定支付意愿的变化，并研究了2016年排放交易计划的意愿支付。我们找到了证据在2016年的调查中根据投票意愿进行支付意愿趋同分析。我们还发现，人们对人为导致的气候变化的信念，科学共识，受访者是否认为自己亲身经历了气候变化的影响以及对气候变化的担忧程度都有所提高。但是，对于其中一些信念，拥有这些观点的受访者比例仍然很小。