Climate policies can backfire by eroding 'green' values, study finds

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Dec 30, 2025, 12:37 pm127 ptsTrending
A popular vision of life after climate action looks like vegetarians riding bikes, city centers without cars, and people foregoing air travel. But a new paper published in Nature Sustainability finds that climate policies targeting lifestyle changes (say, urban car bans) actually may weaken people's green…

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