āThe appeasement effect of a UN climate summit on the German publicā
Nature Climate Change
The avalanche of press reports on the 2015 Paris Climate Summit reached the majority of the German public, but didnāt trigger any changes in their attitude towards climate change, a study by Michael BrĆ¼ggemann et al from the University of Hamburg has found. The team asked 1,121 people about their knowledge of and attitude towards climate change before, during, and after the Paris conference. During the conference, the respondentsā trust in the global communityās ability to successfully tackle global warming increased, but their willingness to engage in climate protection efforts themselves did not.
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