Calls mount for UK public engagement strategy to help drive climate action

Cecilia Keating
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Calls mount for UK public engagement strategy to help drive climate action

Interventions, regulations, and incentives that make greener choices more attractive, affordable, and convenient will be key to delivering UK climate goals, according to social science researchers

The government is facing yet more calls to develop a public engagement strategy on climate change, in the wake of research commissioned by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) which highlights the critical...

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