45. Benjamin Sovacool and Chad Baum on global trends in public perceptions of climate technologies

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Benjamin Sovacool and Dr. Chad Baum, about their newly published, high-impact paper, “Public Perceptions and Support of Climate Intervention Technologies across the Global North and Global South”. Join us as we discuss the key findings of their work, and how these findings can and should influence policy and governance methods.

Dr. Benjamin Sovacool is a professor with affiliations at Aarhus University, the University of Sussex and Boston University.  Dr. Chad Baum is Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Development and Technology of Aarhus University.

Links:

• Ben Sovacool’s profile
• Chad Baum’s profile
• The GENIE project
• Their Nature paper, Public Perceptions and Support of Climate Intervention Technologies across the Global North and Global South and accessible summary
• Check out their paper on sentiments and emotions of climate tech on Twitter 
• And another one on field testing radical climate interventions, 
• And another one on co-impacts
• Also check out our related episode with Luke Iseman on Make Sunsets

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