Natural disasters must be unusual or deadly to prompt local climate policy change
Saturday, August 29, 2020 - 14:40
in Earth & Climate
Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in climate change mitigation or adaptation, a new study has found. Rather, policy change in response to extreme weather events appears to depend on a combination of factors, including fatalities, sustained media coverage, the unusualness of the event and the political makeup of the community.