Climate change has renewed debates about the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. CLIMGROW investigates how concerns about economic growth shape support for ambitious climate policy, and how new policy strategies can help build durable public support.
The project combines surveys, experiments, interviews and computational modelling in six sub-projects to better understand how citizens, experts and policymakers think about climate policy, economic growth and alternative measures of societal progress.
The central concept in the project is the policy-support cycle (PSC). It allows to clarify the organisation of the project in terms of sub-projects (SP1-7), as shown in the scheme below:
