🟢 How much public acceptance is there for negative emissions technologies? 🟢
Assoc. prof. Goda Perlaviciute will be sharing insights from our department's research in Brussels today during the final meeting of the EU NEGEM Project negemproject.eu/news/cross-nat…

🚨Happy to share our new paper with Environmental Psychology Groningen and Eawag colleagues, Goda Perlaviciute, Nadja Contzen, and Linda Steg. ⚡️We examined how trust in local and central institutions relates to public support of phasing out natural gas.
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🔎Some key ideas:

Een cruciale stap in de uitfasering van fossiele brandstoffen. Institutioneel vertrouwen heeft positieve invloed op steun van publiek voor #uitfasering van #aardgas . Lokale instellingen worden gezien als eerlijker & transparanter: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

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🏛️ Institutional trust positively influences public support for #naturalgas phase out. Local institutions are seen as honest/transparent & national institutions as knowledgeable/skilled. Gonzalo Palomo Vélez & our colleagues explore this in their latest paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

💡Energy literacy is important, but not sufficient to achieve the energy transition. At next week's World Energy Council Congress, prof. Linda Steg will speak about why making pro-environmental behaviour more attractive and easier to carry out matters so much.
worldenergycongress.org/rotterdam/prog…

🌱Coming soon: the new and improved EP Groningen Instagram🌱

We're officially (re)launching our Instagram feed next week! There will be a sneak preview of what we have in store later this week, so be sure to follow us there, too!

instagram.com/epgroningen/

🔵 We're looking for a postdoc in public perceptions and acceptability of hydrogen developments! 🔵 You can find more information about this vacancy and apply (by 12 May 11:59pm/before 13 May 2024 Dutch local time (CEST) here: rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

#environmentalpsychology

You'll find us there, too! Come by and say hi, and we'll be happy to answer your questions about studying in our department!

Glad to have our new article on the effect of labeling and tasting on individual's meat substitute evaluations 🌱published in Food Quality and Preference.

🍔 A new paper (with contributions from University of Groningen Faculteit GMW - University of Groningen) finds #vegetarian labeling on #meatsubstitutes enhances #climate & health-related product evaluations & tasting meat substitutes results in more positive product quality perceptions 🍔epgroningen.nl/tasting-and-la…

Now official: Realizing the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 14(4), 322-330. 10.1038/s41558-024-01951-1.

postprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

What's it like to do science in the Arctic? 🧊Find out during a 360° dome screening of 'Arctic Expedition' at Museon-Omniversum: museon-omniversum.nl/en/film/arctic…
The film is by the Arctic Explorer Foundation, where
Arctic Centre Groningen 🇳🇱 is a partner & our colleagues are researching 'Arctic ambassadorship'.

Lawsuits against local and national governments (like #Switzerland ) are a new frontier in the fight against #climatechange 🧑🏽‍⚖️

Research by our colleague Xinran Wang found that many Americans support suing #fossilfuel companies for global warming damages: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How much does sustainability matter to patrons of the cultural sector? 🎭In a new report co-authored by our colleague Thijs Bouman, 41 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to visit an unsustainable cultural institution over the next five years.

Why is behaviour change a better bet than techno-optimism?🤔

Our CAST Director Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE wrote a guest article for Scientists for Global Responsibility explaining why behaviour change around consumption is vital to any green transition.

Read the article: sgr.org.uk/resources/why-…

Yet more evidence that getting out on the streets is effective at raising public concern about climate change, and that there is no 'backlash' from civil disobedience

Activism works

🖋️ Registration is open for the Kurt Lewin Instituut Conference, which will be held in Zeist on 25 and 26 April, and this year's edition features plenty of familiar names from our department and faculty! Interested in attending? forms.uu.nl/universiteitut…

Important new PIK study. A shift in our diets could make a considerable difference if we do not want to crash through the 1.5°C limit in the next 10 - 15 years. This calls for globally concerted efforts to support the transition towards sustainable healthy diets.