Public Attitudes to Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)

Series: Centre for Climate Repair
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Our ability to meet ambitious climate targets relies increasingly on scaling up carbon dioxide removal (CDR) options. Since most of these options are fairly new, public awareness is understandably low, but rising with deployment. Emerging awareness and attitudinal research shows that publics are generally very capable of formulating informed opinions and often raise legitimate questions. Some of the key obstacles to these options are likely to be social rather than technocratic.

This talk addresses important questions around public attitudes towards CDR, such as: what are public attitudes towards key CDR options, and to what extent, and in which ways, should publics be involved in CDR decision-making? Drawing on work that I have been involved in regarding expert attitudes towards CDR, I explore how technological attributes and ways of communicating about new and emerging CDR options might influence wider attitudes towards their deployment. I also draw implications for choosing responsible communication techniques to encourage an exchange of diverse opinions towards CDR and its role within the wider portfolio of climate policy options.

Dr Zeynep Clulow is Research Associate at the Judge Business School's Energy Policy Research Group.

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