Reciprocity matters--people were more supportive of climate policies in their country if they believed other countries were making significant efforts themselves, per survey of 4,000 Chinese, Indian, Japanese and US citizens.
Article URL: https://plos.io/4pfhbgj
Article Title: They reduce, we reduce: Perception of other countries' climate effort predicts support for climate policies
Author Countries: China, Japan, Sweden
Funding: The work described in this study was supported by grants awarded to Kim-Pong Tam from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 16601122 to KPT); HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies with support from EY, Hong Kong, China (Project No. IEMS19HS02 to KPT); and the Fiscal 2019 Grant for Japan-Related Research Projects, The Sumitomo Foundation, Japan (Project No. SFJP20HS01 to KPT); and a grant awarded to Malcolm Fairbrother by the Swedish Research Council (Grant No. 2020-04725 to MF). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
