Behavior Change
Behavioral Insights for Change will draw on social-behavioral science to design and test interventions that nudge and boost people toward sustainable attitudes, beliefs, and behavior that will meet the climate challenge. These include changes to civic action and engagement that supports substantive policy as well as changes to individual consumption to achieve drawdown of greenhouse gas emissions.
Recent activities
Leaf Van Boven and David Sherman argue that Republican leadership is key to depolarizing climate solutions in an op-ed published in The Hill (January 2025).
Leaf Van Boven was a panelist at the The Institute for Science and Policy: The Future of Climate Policy (December 2024)
Amanda Carrico and Leaf Van Boven participated in a conference on Human Dimensions of Climate Change: From Individual to Collective Action, Stanford University, Doer School of Sustainability (December 2024)
Amanda Carrico and Leaf Van Boven participated in a conference on Bypassing Climate Polarization, Vanderbilt University (October 2024)
Van Boven participated in a meeting on Decisions, Cognition and the Climate Crisis, The Ohio State University (April 2023)
Van Boven and Boykofff were panelists at CU Boulder's Conference on World Affairs (April 2023)
Social Science and Sustainability Technology (with CIRES, Boykoff, Van Boven, upcoming, Oct 2022)
Climate Change, Democracy, & Society Conference (CU/DU, Carrico & Van Boven, December 2021)
Social Science Solutions (UCSB, Van Boven, October 2021)
- Behavioral Climate Policy (2021, Van Boven)
- Research Seed Grants
- Publications and Presentations