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Egg-timer session: Behavioral economics Location: Auditorium J: Aina Uhde Session Chair: Michela Boldrini, Bocconi University | |
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Updating climate beliefs based on latest IPCC report points to increased willingness to invest in the clean energy transition 1: University of York, United Kingdom; 2: University of Exeter, United Kingdom; 3: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 4: Columbia University, United States We assess how changes in the scientific consensus around equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), as captured by the IPCC’s Fifth (AR5) and Sixth (AR6) Assessment Reports, impact policymakers’ willingness to take climate action, including through increasing subsidies to investments that will help to deliver the clean energy transition. Taking the IPCC’s reports at face value, the ECS estimates in AR6 would have lowered a policymaker’s willingness to act on climate relative to AR5 due to a narrower “likely” range. However, Bayesian updating may reverse this conclusion. An accuracy-motivated policymaker who was not convinced to take greater climate action by the evidence in AR5 may be more likely to increase their investment in clean energy by the evidence in AR6. | |
