From Myths to Action

Michael P. Vandenbergh; Kristian Steensen Nielsen

doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0357-9

From Myths to Action

Michael P. Vandenbergh
, Kristian Steensen Nielsen

Department of Management, Society and Communication

Vanderbilt University

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Abstract

Correcting misperceptions provides an opportunity to reduce household GHG emissions across multiple domains. Now research shows that consumers greatly underestimate emissions from foods, but these misperceptions can be successfully corrected with carbon labelling.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	9
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	8-9
Number of pages	2
ISSN	1758-678X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0357-9
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019

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SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Carbon and energy
Climate-change mitigation
Decision making
Psychology

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