Klimapolitik, die für sich spricht

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Creating social support for effective climate protection with five guiding principles

Climate policy is characterised by a paradox: On the one hand, surveys measure a persistently high level of concern about climate change and show that people across the party spectrum expect more climate protection from politicians.

At the same time, political decision-makers are going to great lengths to avoid any form of climate policy "imposition". And since the communication debacle surrounding the Heating Act, there seems to be an almost panicked fear of toxic climate debates in political Berlin.

In a joint policy paper by the German Council for Sustainable Development and the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, researchers have now described five guiding principles that can show climate policy a way out of the downward spiral of mutual negative expectations between politicians and the electorate.

They are convinced that those who follow these principles when designing climate protection measures will create a climate policy in which policy design and communication are mutually reinforcing - and which can count on broad social support. At the event, the authors will present these five guiding principles and discuss with the renowned political consultant Johannes Hillje how they can be successfully implemented.