Environmental actions, support for policy, and information’sprovision: experimental evidence from the US

We investigate the effectiveness of providing prospective versus retrospective informationon local climate change to promote pro-environmental behavior and support for greenpolicies. A randomized experiment on a representative sample of American adults findsthat providing prospective local climate change information is most effective at increas-ing pro-environmental actions and policy support, regardless of partisanship. The impactof this information provision increases when individuals feel responsible for addressingclimate change, have young children, and trust the central government. Prospective infor-mation on local climate change can thus contribute to promoting the vast support for thenecessary actions to address the climate crisis.