ArticleNature communications2024
Increase in concerns about climate change following climate strikes and civil disobedience in Germany.
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- Actively distancing from climate radicals improves public support for moderate climate activists.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Radical climate protests shaped portrayals of moderate activists and reader attitudes in German news media.npj climate action · 2026Article
- Perspectives of individuals on reducing meat consumption to mitigate climate change - a scoping review.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Out of the labs and into the streets: Effects of climate protests by environmental scientists.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Reducing meat consumption: Results from a German survey on attitudes, behaviour and willingness to change among adults.PloS one · 2025Article
- Media coverage of climate activist groups in Germany.Climatic change · 2025Article
- Increase in concerns about climate change following climate strikes and civil disobedience in Germany.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Climate movements have gained momentum in recent years, aiming to create public awareness of the consequences of climate change through salient climate protests. This paper investigates whether concerns about climate change increase following demonstrative protests and confrontational acts of civil disobedience. Leveraging individual-level survey panel data from Germany, we exploit exogenous variations in the timing of climate protests relative to survey interview dates to compare climate change concerns in the days before and after a protest (N = 24,535). Following climate protests, we find increases in concerns about climate change by, on average, 1.2 percentage points. Further, we find no statistically significant evidence that concerns of any subpopulation decreased after climate protests. Lastly, the increase in concerns following protests is highest when concern levels before the protests are low.
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