Lee et al. (2025): Forest or machine? Public perceptions and acceptability of negative emissions technologies and practices across six European countries
Chieh-Yu Lee, Goda Perlaviciute and Linda Steg, IN: Climatic Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-025-04043-x
To limit climate change to 1.5 °C, negative emission technologies and practices (NETPs) are needed to supplement, not replace, other essential mitigation efforts. The authors conducted a large-scale survey on NETPs in six EU countries (N = 5,310) to examine: (1) public preferences for NETPs, next to other mitigation options; (2) how people evaluate the environmental and intergenerational consequences and acceptability of nature-based (i.e., afforestation and reforestation; AR) and technology-based NETPs (i.e., direct air capture with carbon storage; DACCS); (3) the relationship between the evaluation of consequences and acceptability judgements of AR and DACCS; and (4) public preferences for AR and DACCS in general versus in their own country.