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Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation

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Araujo, Nuno, Vicens, Julian, Bueno-Guerra, Nereida, Gutiérrez-Roig, Mario, Gracia-Lázaro, Carlos, Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús, Perelló, Josep, Sánchez, Angel, Moreno, Yamir and Duch, Jordi (2018) Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation. PLoS One, 13 (10). e0204369. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0204369

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Abstract

Climate change mitigation is a shared global challenge that involves collective action of a set of individuals with different tendencies to cooperation. However, we lack an understanding of the effect of resource inequality when diverse actors interact together towards a common goal. Here, we report the results of a collective-risk dilemma experiment in which groups of individuals were initially given either equal or unequal endowments. We found that the effort distribution was highly inequitable, with participants with fewer resources contributing significantly more to the public goods than the richer −sometimes twice as much. An unsupervised learning algorithm classified the subjects according to their individual behavior, finding the poorest participants within two “generous clusters” and the richest into a “greedy cluster”. Our results suggest that policies would benefit from educating about fairness and reinforcing climate justice actions addressed to vulnerable people instead of focusing on understanding generic or global climate consequences.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Climate change mitigation, Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on, Climatic changes -- Government policy -- International cooperation, Climatic changes -- Law and legislation -- International cooperation
Journal or Publication Title: PLoS One
Publisher: Public Library of Science
ISSN: 1932-6203
Official Date: 31 October 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
31 October 2018Published
5 September 2018Accepted
Volume: 13
Number: 10
Article Number: e0204369
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204369
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
2013 DI 49Generalitat de Catalunyahttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002809
2014 SGR 608Generalitat de Catalunyahttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002809
FIS2013-47532-C3-2-P [MINECO] Ministerio de Economía y Competitividadhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329
FIS2016-78904-C3-2-P[MINECO] Ministerio de Economía y Competitividadhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329
FIS2015-71582-C2[MINECO] Ministerio de Economía y Competitividadhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329
FIS2014-55867-P[MINECO] Ministerio de Economía y Competitividadhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329
FIS2015-64349-P[MINECO] Ministerio de Economía y Competitividadhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329
640772[ERC] Horizon 2020 Framework Programmehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661
662725[ERC] Horizon 2020 Framework Programmehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661

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