Settling an unsettled phenomenon: citizens’ views and understandings of voluntary carbon offsetting in Finland

IF 2.9 3区 社会学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Kamilla Karhunmaa, Saara Salmivaara, V. Varho, M. Virtanen, Tapio Eerikäinen, Annukka Vainio
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ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon offsets are a rapidly growing market and claims related to offsetting and carbon neutrality are visible in citizens’ daily lives. Proponents suggest that carbon offsetting offers a cost-effective way to incentivize climate action while critics discuss offsetting as an opaque and dysfunctional practice. Previous studies have examined citizens’ perceptions principally through quantitative data, and especially by economic choice experiments. As voluntary carbon offsetting is unsettled in citizen’s everyday lives, we argue that such studies overlook the more subtle ways in which this is happening. To address these ways in detail, we conducted a multi-method analysis of a nationally representative survey (n = 1000) in Finland. The closed questions of the survey were first analysed quantitatively, and the insights then enriched by a qualitative analysis of the open questions. The combined results highlight citizens’ views and understandings as uncertain and ambivalent: despite a widespread willingness to address climate change, there is little unreserved support for voluntary carbon offsetting and distrust towards the sector is high. Our study cautions against placing high hopes in individuals’ voluntary carbon offsetting as a form of climate action.
解决一个悬而未决的现象:芬兰公民对自愿碳补偿的看法和理解
自愿碳补偿是一个快速增长的市场,与碳补偿和碳中和相关的主张在公民的日常生活中随处可见。支持者认为,碳抵消提供了一种具有成本效益的方式来激励气候行动,而批评者则认为碳抵消是一种不透明和功能失调的做法。以前的研究主要是通过定量数据,尤其是经济选择实验来检验公民的看法。由于自愿碳抵消在公民的日常生活中不稳定,我们认为,这些研究忽视了碳抵消发生的更微妙的方式。为了详细说明这些方式,我们对芬兰一项具有全国代表性的调查(n = 1000)进行了多方法分析。调查的封闭问题首先进行了定量分析,然后通过对开放问题的定性分析丰富了见解。综合结果表明,公民的观点和理解是不确定和矛盾的:尽管应对气候变化的意愿普遍存在,但对自愿碳抵消的支持几乎没有保留,对该行业的不信任程度很高。我们的研究提醒人们,不要对个人自愿碳抵消作为一种气候行动寄予厚望。
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