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Summary

For many years, policymakers have been trying to barter multilateral local weather agreements. One of many motivations for securing cooperation amongst a number of states is the idea that the general public might be extra supportive of adopting expensive local weather insurance policies if different international locations achieve this, each as a result of this makes it extra doubtless that essential sustainability objectives might be reached and since these efforts resonate with broadly held equity norms. Nonetheless, some latest analysis means that public approval of local weather motion is impartial of the coverage selections made by different international locations. Right here, we current two completely different experimental research fielded in a number of international locations displaying that multilateralism considerably will increase public approval of expensive local weather motion. Multilateralism makes local weather coverage extra interesting by enhancing effectiveness beliefs and the coverage’s perceived equity. Pursuing local weather motion inside a multilateral setting doesn’t solely promise improved coverage impacts, however can also generate increased ranges of public help. Preregistration: This examine has been pre-registered at AEA RCT Registry underneath #AEARCTR-0004090.

Introduction

Thousands and thousands of individuals world wide have mobilized to protest the failure of governments to implement insurance policies that may considerably cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions and handle the local weather problem. It will appear that these issues resonate not simply with activists, however the majority of voters in lots of the main emitter international locations. Nonetheless, typically when governments have acted to cut back emissions, they’ve been met by intense opposition, a few of it actually by organized particular curiosity teams however a few of it by voters reluctant to incur the prices of upper carbon costs.

How can we clarify political opposition to expensive local weather motion? One a part of the reply is definitely the size of the distributional battle related to the form of vitality transition needed to deal with the local weather problem. The prices and advantages of local weather change and local weather coverage fluctuate throughout people, generations, corporations, industries, areas, and international locations^1,2,3,4,5. Even in surveys that originally appear to point that enormous majorities favor local weather motion, making the prices and their distribution express can shortly erode help for local weather coverage. One other widespread clarification factors to the worldwide public items character of addressing local weather change^{6,7,8,9,10,11}. If sustainable greenhouse gasoline emissions are a world public good with the same old traits, this will likely result in local weather coverage underprovision.

Policymakers and researchers have invested considerably in figuring out worldwide agreements and establishments that may handle the worldwide part of the issue, e.g., by way of central cooperative frameworks such because the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC). This sensible and scholarly effort builds on insights into how small and enormous communities throughout numerous difficulty domains clear up public items issues^12,13,14. A doable motivation behind policymakers’ pursuits in making a workable worldwide framework for cooperation on local weather change may very well be to safe better public help for insurance policies to cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions, particularly coverage measures which can be expensive to their voter base. We argue that voters worth the advantages that local weather motion present and are extra keen to contribute to the worldwide public good of manageable emissions if different international locations are doing in order effectively due to effectiveness beliefs and reciprocity norms^15,16: First, multilateral insurance policies usually tend to be efficient, i.e., in a position to notice essential social, financial, and environmental sustainability objectives. Second, multilateral agreements resonate with reciprocal equity norms which enhance the willingness to bear the prices of local weather motion if different international locations are exerting better coverage efforts to achieve the collective objective of limiting world warming.

Early research supply proof that appears explicitly or implicitly per the concept that the general public values multilateral cooperation on local weather change^16,17. Nonetheless, a number of newer contributions make express claims in regards to the restricted relevance or irrelevance of the habits of different international locations for our understanding of the mass politics of local weather change^18,19,20. As a substitute, these research recommend that public help for expensive local weather insurance policies doesn’t meaningfully rely on whether or not different international locations are additionally contributing or not. We current proof from two experimental research in 4 international locations—France, Germany, the UK, and america—indicating that voters do care in regards to the insurance policies of different international locations and usually tend to help expensive insurance policies when different international locations are additionally doing so. Furthermore, we provide experimental proof suggesting that this interdependence is because of how multilateralism—even when it merely revolves round unfastened coverage coordination through which states make nationally decided contributions per the pliability provided by the UNFCCC framework—shapes the anticipated effectiveness of insurance policies and the way it resonates with reciprocal equity norms.

On this work, we examine whether or not multilateralism will increase help for expensive local weather insurance policies. Multilateralism could also be regarded as describing a continuum of habits in worldwide politics. This continuum might vary from decentralized cooperation amongst states, e.g., a set of two or extra international locations independently contributing to a public good in an ad-hoc vogue²¹, to extremely institutionalized types of interplay in and thru worldwide organizations and agreements^22,23. We examine multilateralism within the context of local weather cooperation the place international locations have interaction in “decentralized coverage coordination”²⁴ which usually entails declaratory statements and agreements that specify coverage aims (e.g., the objective to restrict world warming to effectively beneath 2 °C as set out within the Paris settlement) and doable means, however lack enforcement mechanisms²⁵.

The causal impact of multilateralism on local weather coverage help

To evaluate whether or not multilateralism causes increased ranges of coverage help, we begin by using a vignette survey experiment in France, Germany, and the UK. We conduct the experiment as a module in authentic surveys fielded in April 2019. For every nation, the samples are consultant of the grownup inhabitants with 2000 respondents in every. The Strategies part gives an in depth description of the sampling body. Supplementary Desk 1 gives a comparability of the distribution of sociodemographic traits within the goal inhabitants, the uncooked pattern, and the weighted pattern. All our outcomes make use of survey weights, however the findings are very related when analyzing the unweighted knowledge.

We examine the impact of multilateralism on help for local weather coverage by exploring public help for a home carbon tax. This coverage instrument is comparatively simple for respondents to know and it’s affordable to count on that it reduces carbon emissions. Critically, it may be carried out by both a single nation or a number of international locations per the pliability provided by the UNFCCC and nationally decided contributions to decreasing world emissions. Which means our method doesn’t examine the extra institutionalized and particular method of making “linked carbon taxes” though the modifications wanted to analyze this coverage instrument in future work are straighforward. The precise wording of the vignette experiment is (with the placeholder COUNTRY being a respondent’s nation):

“Suppose COUNTRY [decides OR and other major economies decide] to implement a carbon tax, which is a further tax on the CO₂ content material of fuels, to deal with local weather change. Usually talking, do you approve or disapprove of COUNTRY implementing such insurance policies?”

We randomize whether or not a respondent receives a model of this query through which the carbon tax can be carried out unilaterally or whether or not it could be a part of a multilateral setting through which different main economies additionally introduce a carbon tax. We report responses on a 1–10 (strongly approve – strongly disapprove) reply scale.

Greater ranges of worldwide participation in local weather motion might enhance public help due to heightened expectations in regards to the effectiveness of those coverage efforts. We examine the effectiveness mechanism by crossing the multilateralism experiment with a second vignette experiment that gives details about anticipated coverage impacts. This permits us to investigate the causal mechanism in an eradicated results framework²⁶. The experiment consists of 1 management group—which receives no extra info—and two remedy teams Effectiveness: Low and Effectiveness: Excessive. We offer these teams with the next extra primes:

Effectiveness: Low: “Most specialists suppose it will keep away from a couple of of the economically and environmentally damaging penalties of local weather change.”

Effectiveness: Excessive: “Most specialists suppose it will keep away from a lot of the economically and environmentally damaging penalties of local weather change.”

Outcomes

We analyze the proportion of people approving the introduction of a carbon tax (ranges of help that exceed 5, the midpoint of the size). Determine 1a experiences carbon tax help by the randomly assigned multilateralism situation together with 95% confidence intervals. Within the management situation that didn’t obtain any effectiveness info, we discover that about 53% of all respondents help the introduction of a carbon tax if this coverage is pursued unilaterally. It’s noteworthy that this estimate is just not completely different from 50% in statistical phrases. Due to this fact, within the absence of multilateral coverage coordination, we’d not make sure {that a} majority truly helps the introduction of a carbon tax. Nonetheless, when different international locations are merely talked about to additionally introduce a carbon tax, help is 59%, which is equal to a 6 share factors enhance over the unilateralism situation. We additionally observe that this remedy impact is equal to an 11% enhance over the baseline stage of unilateral carbon tax approval. Given the relative simplicity of the remedy, this can be a substantively essential marginal impact. Furthermore, a multilateral method generates a stage of help that considerably exceeds 50% in statistical phrases, thereby contributing to a extra sure majority in favor of introducing a carbon tax. These outcomes are very related when analyzing the unweighted knowledge (Supplementary Fig. 1) however differ considerably by nation (Supplementary Fig. 2).

We’re all for exploring effectiveness as a possible mechanism able to explaining the attraction of multilateralism. We carry out this investigation in an eradicated results framework. First, recall that our estimate of the typical remedy impact above is the distinction between the extent of carbon tax help within the unilateral situation and the carbon tax approval within the multilateralism situation through which respondents didn’t obtain details about effectiveness. Second, the estimate of the impact of multilateralism for respondents uncovered to the low or excessive effectiveness situation is our estimate of the typical managed direct impact which is the a part of the overall impact that’s not because of mediation by or interplay with effectiveness. Third, the typical remedy impact minus the typical managed direct impact is the eradicated impact²⁶. This amount is the portion of the typical remedy impact that may be defined by the impact of the remedy (multilateralism) by way of the mediator (effectiveness) and any interplay between multilateralism and effectiveness.

Determine 1a reveals the outcomes for the high and low effectiveness circumstances through which we repair respondents’ beliefs about coverage effectiveness. We discover that within the excessive effectiveness situation a unilateral carbon tax method is backed by about 57% and that this proportion will increase to 62% within the multilateralism remedy. In distinction, when coverage effectiveness is low, the change from a unilateral to a multilateral local weather coverage framework has nearly no impact on carbon tax approval.

Determine 1b reveals that multilateralism causes a major enhance in carbon tax help within the management and within the excessive effectiveness situation, however not within the low effectiveness situation. This implies our two eradicated impact estimates present contrasting proof on how effectively effectiveness explains the impression of multilateralism on public help. For top effectiveness, the eradicated impact could be very near zero whereas for low effectiveness, it’s constructive at about 6 share factors and near being vital on the 5%-level. The latter estimate signifies that a lot of the impact of multilateralism is defined by effectiveness, however in fact the caveat is that the excessive effectiveness estimate is inconsistent with this interpretation.

Multilateralism and expectations about effectiveness and sustainability

To discover which impacts people count on from a multilateral versus a unilateral local weather coverage framework, we added a query after the multilateralism vignette experiment that prompted respondents to point whether or not they thought particular statements about a variety of sustainability impacts had been true or false. The statements coated environmental, financial, and fairness-related impacts of local weather motion, see Strategies part.

We estimate how multilateralism adjustments effectiveness beliefs by regressing whether or not an announcement is chosen as true on a multilateralism remedy indicator, a full set of sociodemographic management variables, and country-fixed results. The leads to Fig. 2 point out that multilateralism issues: people are considerably extra more likely to count on better environmental advantages, decrease financial and governance prices, and fairer value distributions from multilateral efforts (see Supplementary Fig. 3 for the unweighted outcomes that are fairly related). Relating to advantages, we discover that multilateralism considerably improves beliefs in regards to the capability to achieve essential sustainability objectives, for instance, the potential for local weather motion to enhance the lives of respondents’ youngsters and grandchildren.

We discover broadly related results when analyzing whether or not the coverage will save endangered animals and crops and whether or not it would enhance public well being outcomes. When assessing the impression of multilateralism on prices, we discover {that a} multilateral coverage method doesn’t systematically have an effect on issues associated to elevated regulation and potential job losses attributable to progressive local weather motion. Nonetheless, multilateral initiatives cut back public unease about vitality worth will increase²⁷. Lastly, multilateralism considerably will increase the idea that the prices of local weather motion might be distributed extra pretty, which is illustrative of the shut linkages between local weather coverage and justice. Supplementary Fig. 4 experiences the outcomes by nation, suggesting that the multilateralism results are strongest in France and fewer systematic in Germany and the UK.

Multilateral coverage design and local weather help

Thus far, now we have explored the impression of multilateralism on the normal stage on public help for expensive local weather motion. Our second examine begins to unpack the notion of multilateralism by investigating whether or not people have preferences over the particular, multidimensional insurance policies in different international locations and whether or not these insurance policies affect the willingness of respondents to undertake expensive insurance policies in their very own nation. This examine was performed as a separate module within the French, German, and British surveys described above and in a further survey fielded in america in December 2018.

We constructed a randomized conjoint experiment that offered respondents with two multilateral local weather coverage situations and requested them to point which of the 2 they like. Every situation specified a multilateral local weather coverage setting: a mix of expensive local weather coverage selections for each a respondent’s personal nation and different main economies (Supplementary Fig. 5 reveals detailed conjoint directions together with an instance profile). The coverage options included common prices to households, their temporal distribution, and whether or not revenues can be invested in adaptation or mitigation. Price ranges are essential as a result of they’re indicative of how a lot a person or nation is keen to contribute to decreasing greenhouse gasoline emissions by rising the prices of carbon (the doable values employed had been month-to-month family prices roughly equal to 0.5%, 1%, 2%, or 2.5% of GDP). The fee schedule denotes the sequencing of carbon pricing over time, which we allowed to be held fixed, elevated over time, or decreased²⁸. Funding combine refers back to the share of assets spent on the 2 basic coverage responses to local weather change: adaptation and mitigation²⁹. This distinction is essential theoretically as a result of earlier research have argued that adaptation efforts present native advantages whereas mitigation contributes to the worldwide public good of decreasing greenhouse gasoline emissions which gives non-excludable and non-rival advantages. An essential innovation of this conjoint for functions of this examine is that every coverage dimension and its values had been specified for each the respondent’s personal nation and different main economies. This permits us to analyze the sensitivity of people to the insurance policies of different international locations and benchmark these in opposition to the causal results of home coverage options. Every respondent accomplished eight conjoint alternative duties.

We estimate whether or not respondents care in regards to the local weather coverage selections made by different international locations by regressing whether or not a coverage was chosen on indicators for every of the absolutely randomized attributes. Determine 3 experiences the outcomes. We discover that rising the prices of carbon domestically has a powerful impression on help for local weather motion: public help drops by 6 share factors if prices enhance from low €28 in France, €39 in Germany, £15 within the UK, and $53 within the US to medium ranges (€56, €77, £30, $107) and declines by 17 share factors if home prices are excessive (€113, €154, £60, $213). We discover a weaker, however vital aversion to local weather prices in different international locations with results sizes about one-third of these for home local weather prices.

Whereas the sensitivity of carbon tax approval to prices in different international locations is per the principle declare of the paper that voters care in regards to the insurance policies pursued in international international locations, they’re additionally noteworthy from a public items perspective. Traditional fashions of freeriding would predict that people choose international international locations to make increased contributions since lots of the advantages of local weather motion are non-excludable. Our outcomes don’t help this prediction. As a substitute, we imagine that the aversion to rising carbon costs in different international locations is per two potential explanations. First, expensive local weather motion by different international locations generates strain on international locations to reciprocate. Reciprocating, nevertheless, requires incurring prices and publics are averse to prices. A second potential clarification is that people maintain other-regarding preferences resembling altruism or inequality aversion. In keeping with this view, publics dislike different international locations to extend local weather prices as a result of this will likely harm the monetary well-being of people in different international locations and add to rising inequality.

Turning to multilateral value paths, publics usually choose each their very own and different international locations to undertake fixed or lowering value paths over the baseline of accelerating value schedules. Lastly, we additionally discover that increased mitigation investments by different international locations considerably enhance help for multilateral local weather coverage. The impact is once more considerably smaller than the sensitivity to local weather funding selections in a single’s personal nation, however nonetheless sizeable: coverage help will increase by about 5 share factors if different international locations make investments at the least 60% in mitigation efforts. This impact can be adequate to offset the drop in public help because of rising different value ranges from low to medium. A choice for mitigation funding versus adaptation in different international locations is per a priority about whether or not coverage efforts might be efficient as respondents in a given nation are more likely to profit extra from the mitigation efforts in different international locations than from adaptation investments in these international locations.

Our evaluation thus far has targeted on offering proof that people care in regards to the local weather insurance policies of different international locations. We now flip to the reciprocity-based query of whether or not these insurance policies additionally affect the willingness of respondents to again expensive insurance policies in their very own nation. Along with a priority about effectiveness, norms of reciprocity have been proven to help cooperation throughout numerous settings. One motivation for international locations to hunt multilateral agreements is to activate reciprocity norms that may enhance the willingness of residents to undertake expensive home local weather insurance policies which might contribute to the worldwide public good of lowered emissions.

We will use the conjoint knowledge to analyze the function of two notions of conditional cooperation: qualitative and actual reciprocity. First, we discover qualitative reciprocity, i.e., whether or not the aversion to home prices relies on the local weather efforts made by different international locations. Particularly, reciprocity norms recommend that extra expensive local weather motion by different international locations ought to reduce the distaste for prices in a single’s personal nation. We consider this predicted cross-country interdependence between the local weather contributions made in international international locations and home value aversion by re-estimating the causal results of personal family prices on local weather coverage help for every of the 4 value ranges in different international locations. Determine 4 reveals the outcomes.

We discover that when different prices are set very low, a home coverage that will increase prices to medium ranges reduces help by about 7 share factors. In distinction, this impact shrinks to about 5.5 share factors when different prices are very excessive. This sample of a lowering aversion to personal prices when different international locations are keen to undertake progressive local weather pricing insurance policies turns into extra pronounced and statistically vital when personal prices are excessive or very excessive. Within the latter situation, the causal impact of very excessive personal prices drops from 25 to 21 share factors on common. This discovering is per the reciprocity-based argument that people worth the local weather coverage contributions made by different international locations and this lowers their aversion to incurring excessive prices. The interdependence between home and international carbon pricing is all of the extra noteworthy because it has confirmed difficult to detect theoretically significant interactions between attribute options in conjoint knowledge³⁰.

We will consider this evaluation as displaying proof of qualitative reciprocity: people seem like extra keen to incur prices to cut back emissions if different international locations are making expensive efforts. Our knowledge additionally enable us to discover proof for actual reciprocity understood because the elevated willingness to help adopting local weather insurance policies domestically if these match the efforts of different international locations. Precise matching appears a pure focus for reciprocal habits.

We take a look at this expectation by investigating whether or not situations through which different international locations match the associated fee ranges of 1’s personal nation will increase help for local weather motion extra strongly than non-matching contributions. We compute the typical marginal interplay results (AMIEs) as outlined by ref. 31. The AMIE amount of curiosity captures the extra impact on the chance {that a} coverage is chosen of two options co-occurring, above and past their particular person results.

Determine 5 reveals the AMIEs which seize how a particular mixture of own-other nation value ranges have an effect on coverage help. The baseline class is a state of affairs the place personal prices are at their highest whereas the prices for different international locations are at their lowest. We discover that the interplay results are largest when a situation is strictly reciprocal, specifically when the opposite international locations’ common prices precisely matches the respondent’s home local weather contribution. When the personal and different family prices differ, their relative measurement has little or no impression on respondents’ chance of choosing a coverage. This lends extra help to the significance of reciprocity within the context of multilateral local weather motion.

Dialogue

Large assets have been invested in forging worldwide cooperation to deal with local weather change, with restricted success thus far. Internationally, it’s clear that there are main distributional and home political obstacles to decreasing greenhouse gasoline emissions. In such an atmosphere, it’s a honest query whether or not the give attention to worldwide agreements and multilateral cooperation extra usually is time effectively spent. On this paper, now we have revisited one motivation for securing such multilateral preparations—constructing a sturdy home political coalition in help of expensive local weather motion. Our discovering that multilateralism is a crucial driver of public help for local weather motion has a number of implications. First, when it comes to policymaking, this implies that addressing local weather change by way of worldwide cooperation slightly than completely unilaterally could also be extra essential to extend public approval than beforehand thought. In spite of everything, efficient local weather motion would require people to tolerate carbon pricing and multilateral efforts might generate the goodwill essential to make expensive local weather motion palatable. Second, we imagine that since mass preferences over local weather motion are delicate to the coverage efforts of different international locations, present theories of worldwide interdependence that construct on fashions of collective motion can enhance our understanding of public attitudes towards expensive local weather motion. Third, the multilateral coverage conjoint experiment developed right here might be utilized to review in additional element the relative significance of home and multilateral coverage design options for explaining mass help for insurance policies meant to deal with essential sustainability challenges resembling biodiversity loss, deforestation, air air pollution, renewable vitality transitions, waste disposal, or ocean acidification.

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Pattern

We fielded our survey in 4 main economies (France, Germany, the UK, and america). The survey was performed on-line by YouGov on consultant samples of the grownup populations. YouGov employs matched sampling through which respondents are chosen from individuals in YouGov’s on-line panel. Matched sampling entails taking a stratified random pattern of the goal inhabitants after which matching out there web respondents to the goal pattern utilizing propensity scores. The propensity rating mannequin included age, gender, years of schooling, and area for the European international locations and gender, age, race/ethnicity, area, and schooling for america.

United States: The sphere interval was December 18, 2018 to January 3, 2019. The sampling body for the goal inhabitants was constructed from the total 2016 American Group Survey. All matched respondents had been then assigned weights stratified on 2016 presidential vote, age, intercourse, race, and schooling to right for remaining imbalances. The ultimate variety of observations was 4075.

France, Germany, United Kingdom: The sphere interval was March 31, 2019 to April 04, 2019. The sampling frames for the goal populations had been constructed from the 2018 Eurobarometer survey with choice inside strata by weighted sampling with replacements (utilizing the individual weights on the general public use file). The ultimate variety of observations was 2000 for France, 2000 for Germany, and 2000 for the UK.

Supplementary Desk 1 experiences the distributions of sociodemographic traits within the inhabitants, the uncooked samples, and the weighted samples by nation.

Measuring expectations about effectiveness and sustainability

We measured expectations in regards to the effectiveness of a carbon tax utilizing the next query:

“As well as, if this coverage is carried out by [COUNTRY, COUNTRY and other major economies], which of the next statements beneath do you suppose are true? Will this…

… present higher life for kids and grandchildren

… save many plant and animal species from extinction

… enhance individuals’s well being

… result in extra authorities regulation

… trigger vitality costs to rise

… value jobs and hurt the financial system

… assist with distributing the prices of local weather change extra pretty.

The worth of the randomly manipulated a part of the query matched the project within the multilateral vignette experiment described in the principle textual content. COUNTRY was changed with the respondent’s nation identify.

Reporting abstract

Additional info on analysis design is on the market within the Nature Analysis Reporting Abstract linked to this text.

Information availability

The info used on this examine can be found on the Harvard Dataverse as Bechtel, Michael; Scheve, Kenneth; van Lieshout, Elisabeth, 2022, “Replication Information for: Enhancing Public Help for Local weather Motion By means of Multilateralism”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GCNO77, Harvard Dataverse, V1. The next software program has been used to course of the information: Excel (MacOS 16.65), Stata 16, and R.

Code availability

The code used on this examine is on the market on the Harvard Dataverse as Bechtel, Michael; Scheve, Kenneth; van Lieshout, Elisabeth, 2022, “Replication Information for: Enhancing Public Help for Local weather Motion By means of Multilateralism”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GCNO77, Harvard Dataverse, V1.

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We thank Jordan Hale, Charles Kolstad, and audiences at King’s Faculty London, Vanderbilt College, Yale College, the International Analysis in Worldwide Political Economic system Seminar, the 2019 IPES Convention, the Politics of Solidarity Workshop on the College of Dusiburg-Essen, and the Worldwide Institute for Utilized Methods Evaluation Speaker Collection for useful feedback. We thank Emma Singh for worthwhile analysis help. We gratefully acknowledge monetary help from the Swiss Community for Worldwide Research and the Weidenbaum Heart on the Economic system, Authorities, and Public Coverage at Washington College in St. Louis. Bechtel acknowledges help from the Swiss Nationwide Science Basis (grant #PP00P1-139035) and the German Analysis Basis underneath Germany’s Excellence Technique (EXC 2126/1-390838866). Scheve thanks the Institute for Analysis within the Social Sciences for a college fellowship.

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1. Division of Political Science and European Affairs, Cologne Heart for Comparative Politics, College of Cologne, 80870, Cologne, GermanyMichael M. Bechtel
2. Swiss Institute for Worldwide Economics and Utilized Financial Analysis, CH-9000, St.Gallen, SwitzerlandMichael M. Bechtel
3. Division of Political Science, Yale College, New Haven, CT, 06520-8301, USAKenneth F. Scheve
4. Division of Political Science, Stanford College, Stanford, CA, 94305-6044, USAElisabeth van Lieshout

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M.M.B., Ok.F.S., and E.v.L. contributed equally to this work.

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Bechtel, M.M., Scheve, Ok.F. & van Lieshout, E. Enhancing public help for local weather motion by way of multilateralism. Nat Commun 13, 6441 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33830-8

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