Climate Emergency, Actions, and Climate Justice: What is the role of Behavioral Scientists?

Virtual Meeting - Summer 2021

• Keynotes on the role of Behavioral Scientists for Climate Health (VIDEO)

  Lorraine Whitmarsh, PhD - Climate and Behavior Change

  Sander van der Linden, PhD - Climate beliefs, polarization, and inoculation

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• Let's talk Climate Action presentations

  Julian Thayer, PhD - Climate change, systemic racism, and health disparities, recommendations for our field.

  Kristi White, PhD - Becoming an advocate of climate health in your own healthcare system

• Background Reading

  The Role of Psychology and Behavior Change
  • Yawning at the Apocalypse: How psychologists can help solve the largest social dilemma in history
  • How psychology can help limit climate change: 2021 American Psychologist
  • Habit and Climate Change: 2021, Current op in Behavioral Sciences
  

  The Role of Attitudes and Communications
  • Improving Public Engagement With Climate Change
  • Five “Best Practice” Insights From Psychological Science - The Gateway Belief Model (GBM): A review and research agenda for communicating the scientific consensus on climate change
  

  Advocacy and Social Justice
  • Air pollution systematically targets people of color