Sovacool et al. (2024): Minority groups, Indigenousness and Indigeneity, and place in social perceptions of future climate interventions
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Livia Fritz IN: World Development, 183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106719
The effect radical climate intervention technologies such as carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management could have on Indigenous peoples and minority groups, and those living in rural areas, could be profound and potentially calamitous. Drawing on a large-scale, cross-country set of nationally representative surveys (n = 30,284 participants, with at least 1,000 in each country) in 30 countries and 19 languages, this article examines public preferences for climate intervention technologies through the three dimensions of minority groups, Indigenousness, and place. The survey explores 10 climate intervention or geoengineering technologies: stratospheric aerosol injection, marine cloud brightening, space-based geoengineering, afforestation and reforestation, soil carbon sequestration, blue carbon and marine biomass, direct air capture with carbon storage, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, enhanced rock weathering, and biochar.