Public attention and the Amazon

IF 29.6 1区 地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Nature Climate Change Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI:10.1038/s41558-024-02186-w
Lingxiao Yan
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Climate-induced disasters can often capture the attention of both the public and the media, which make them effective channels for government accountability as governments could then be pressured into taking action. A dramatic surge of public attention on certain events could largely shape the emergent response of regulatory agencies. Yet the existence and duration of such an effect is still unknown.

Rafael Araujo of the Brazilian School of Economics and Finance, and colleagues from the USA, examined the sudden spike in global attention on forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon during August. Using a difference-in-difference setting, they find that compared with less visible but similar fires in Peru and Bolivia during the same period, the unprecedented public scrutiny from global society led to a 22% reduction in fires in this region. The effect is more pronounced in areas with denser forest cover. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that the effect avoided 24.8 million tons of CO2 emissions, which accounts for 3.86% of CO2 emissions that Brazil needed to abate in 2018 to reach the Paris Agreement goals. The authors also discuss the potential channels through which government actions reduced fires.

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公众关注与亚马逊河
气候引发的灾害往往会吸引公众和媒体的注意力,这使其成为政府问责的有效渠道,因为政府可能会因此受到压力而采取行动。公众对某些事件的关注度急剧上升,在很大程度上会影响监管机构的应对措施。巴西经济与金融学院的拉斐尔-阿劳霍(Rafael Araujo)和来自美国的同事研究了 8 月份全球对巴西亚马逊森林火灾关注度的突然飙升。他们利用差分法发现,与同期秘鲁和玻利维亚不太引人注意但类似的火灾相比,全球社会前所未有的公众关注导致该地区的火灾减少了 22%。这种效应在森林覆盖率较高的地区更为明显。回溯计算表明,这一效果避免了 2480 万吨二氧化碳排放,占巴西为实现《巴黎协定》目标而需在 2018 年减少的二氧化碳排放量的 3.86%。作者还讨论了政府行动减少火灾的潜在渠道。
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Nature Climate Change
Nature Climate Change ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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267
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