Final Report Summary - RISICO (RISk and uncertainty in developing and Implementing Climate change pOlicies)
RISICO studied humans perception of climate change and how their preferences and attitudes towards risk and uncertainty affect this perception. In addition to lab and field experiments, expert elicitations and surveys, the project also launched a longitudinal data collection across metro areas of different countries to study how these attitudes about climate change may vary from one person to another, from one country to another, and from one day to the next.
We find that the way uncertainty is communicated can have important implications on how people perceive climate information. We also report that independently on the background of individuals and on their level of expertise a non negligible fraction of them exhibits preferences for very precautionary behaviors in the face of uncertainties that resemble those associated to climate change.
We find that the way uncertainty is communicated can have important implications on how people perceive climate information. We also report that independently on the background of individuals and on their level of expertise a non negligible fraction of them exhibits preferences for very precautionary behaviors in the face of uncertainties that resemble those associated to climate change.