One of capitalism’s greatest ideological sleights of hand has been to convince people that it offers them more choice than an eco-socialist degrowth future. 🧵1/10

Project with Scottish Government now a published report on the CAST website. Evidence-based communication strategies for behaviour change towards less car travel.

A new paper exploring acceptability of #LowEmissionZones co-authored by CAST Director Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE and Research Associate Dr Dan Thorman is out now in the Journal of Environmental Psychology 🚗 Read the paper here 👇 tinyurl.com/2p896ux9 #airpollution #lowemission #cleanairzones

Our CAST Director Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE shares her concerns about the expected #NetZero announcement later today 👇 "The prime minister’s announcement will only serve to diminish public faith that we can avoid the devastating impacts of climate change that we are increasingly seeing."

Parliament must be recalled and should sit tomorrow- Sunak’s blatant and cowardly sidelining of Parliament cannot be allowed to stand

offshoring manufacture and production to cater to obscene levels of consumption bodges the figures

After a summer of wildfire and floods, and records broken here in the UK, yesterday's announcement is barely fathomable. Future generations will ask why, after these stark signs, the government would put this country’s global leadership on climate change into reverse. Fairness

Most policymakers pretend we can cut emissions fast enough without any social or lifestyle change. Our CAST paper led by Caroline Verfuerth says maybe it's time to stop pretending, involve people in decision-making and bring about change in fair and transparent way.

Response to the Net Zero Scrapheap that i wrote with colleagues Wouter Poortinga has re-discovered Dolly Parton and Kat Steentjes for the CAST…no shortage of scares from the conservative party atm, but this really does burn the future 🔥🌍

Our latest CAST briefing on motivating #lowcarbon behaviours in the workforce - based on our work with @cornwallcouncil - is now live on our website 🎉 Read the briefing: cast.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

Last week, several of us submitted a Letter to the Editors of Journal of Environmental Psychology regarding editorial policy on qualitative research. Our letter is available as a preprint here. On the importance of qualitative research in environmental psychology: osf.io/preprints/psya…. Please share!

Last month, CAST's Dr Dan Thorman, Wouter Poortinga has re-discovered Dolly Parton & Kat Steentjes drafted a response to the Prime Minister's 'new approach' to #NetZero, and how it will impact the UK meeting its climate targets🎯 "We need more engagement and stronger action, and we need it now", says Dr Dan Thorman.

The Wales Net Zero 2035 Group is actively seeking evidence (deadline Nov 30) for its 4th challenge on digital and transport: How could people and places be connected across Wales by 2035? 🚆 Share your views and submit evidence: netzero2035.wales/the-challenges…

The #CASTShowcase is now underway 🙌 We kicked off the day by hearing from our CAST Director Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE reflecting on 5 years of research on climate action. “The more you bring people into decision making about climate change, the more effective it’s likely to be.”

Reducing energy demand is the only way to eliminate fossil fuels. And the burden has to be borne by the wealthy: reducing the energy directed towards the production of unnecessary, luxury goods. That is degrowth in a nutshell. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

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