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Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Mitigation in Representative Samples of Indian Adults

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  • Spears, Dean

    (University of Texas at Austin)

  • Hathi, Payal

    (rice Institute)

  • Coffey, Diane

    (rice Institute)

Abstract

Under the Paris Agreement, each country submits national pledges that reflect common but differentiated responsibility. Policy-makers therefore need to understand the mitigation policy interests of domestic populations, especially in developing countries where survey data are relatively scarce. Here we describe results from a new survey-experiment that is representative of adults in the Indian state of Rajasthan and city of Mumbai: most respondents report willingness to sacrifice to achieve climate mitigation.

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  • Spears, Dean & Hathi, Payal & Coffey, Diane, 2019. "Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Mitigation in Representative Samples of Indian Adults," IZA Policy Papers 147, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    environment; climate; India; electricity; survey; phone survey; development;
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    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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