At least 66% of over 5,500 participating adults have never heard of climate justice, according to a new paper published in Nature Climate Change by an international group of scholars joined by UST Department of Psychology Professor Marc Eric S. Reyes, PhD.
The open-access article, entitled 鈥淐limate justice beliefs related to climate action and policy support around the world,鈥� focused on the value of climate justice beliefs 鈥渁s a motive for climate action across diverse geographical contexts.鈥�
Participants acknowledged the influence of capitalism and colonialism on the climate crisis and how it adversely impacts poor people.
The survey found that participants from countries with higher greenhouse gas emissions and politically salient social inequality associated climate justice beliefs with policy support and various indices of climate action.
The paper can be accessed here:
Reyes, a renowned scholar and Psychological Association of the Philippines President from 2020-2022, also teaches at the Graduate School and is an academic researcher of the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education.
