In a Q&A, he describes his motivations to leave academia and offers advice on how academics can create impact. Wolfgang Knorr is a former academic who co-founded Faculty for a Future to help academics to transform their careers and address pressing societal issues. She tells us how she hopes to raise the voices of the children of the world in the fight against climate change and connect individuals who want to take action. Licypriya Kangujam is a 10-year-old climate activist based in India. In two Q&As, Nature Human Behaviour entered into conversation with people who recognized the power of individual behaviour and took action. Collective action, however, usually starts with individuals who raise awareness and drive change. The fight against climate change is a collective endeavour and requires large-scale solutions. In a Correspondence, Charles Ogunbode reminds us that climate justice is social justice in the Global South and that, while being a minor contributor to emissions and global warming, this region has to bear many of the consequences. Unfortunately, the conversations about climate change mitigation are often dominated by Global North and ‘WEIRD’ (Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic) perspectives, neglecting the views of countries in the Global South. The changing climate is driving biodiversity loss, and affecting human physical and mental health. Natural disasters have become more frequent and occur at ever-closer intervals. To buck the trend of rising temperatures, immediate and significant climate action is needed. Three Comments in Nature Climate Change look at how insights from behavioural science can inform policy making in areas such as natural-disaster insurance markets, carbon taxing and the assignment of responsibility for supply chain emissions. Such knowledge is also key for designing robust climate policies. They draw on the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss crucial structures, such as data observatories, for the collection of reliable large-scale data. Scalability requires an understanding of public perceptions and behaviours, as Mirjam Jenny and Cornelia Betsch explain in a Comment. Ideally, interventions are scalable and result in system-level change. Practitioners can use the system to design targeted interventions for behaviour change. In a Review, Anne van Valkengoed and colleagues introduce a classification system that links different interventions to the determinants of individual environmental behaviour. Many interventions for individual behaviour change and for motivating environmental behaviour have been proposed. Several pieces in this Focus discuss how such change can be facilitated. To limit global warming to a minimum, system-level and individual-level behaviour change is necessary.
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