"Given the urgency of climate change, a rapidly growing body of research across the behavioral sciences has tested interventions aimed at stimulating pro-climate behaviors. Here, we propose a framework conceptualizing this body of work at three levels of analysis, ranging from individual cognition to collective action and systemic change. At the individual level, interventions primarily target cognitive or affective processes to increase climate beliefs and stimulate pro-environmental behaviors. Effective interventions at this level include the decreasing of spatial, temporal, and social psychological distance of climate change. At the collective level, interventions aim to stimulate climate advocacy and civic engagement, overcoming social or political barriers to climate mitigation. Promising interventions at this level include emphasizing the efficacy and emotional benefits of collective action. And at the systemic level, climate action can be facilitated, accelerated, and scaled, through structural interventions leveraging policy innovations, infrastructure development, algorithmic deployment, entertainment outlets, or educational tools. Incorporating insights across the individual collective and system levels through interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations stands to maximize the behavioral sciences’ contributions to the climate crisis response."
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