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Climate Change Needs Behavior Change

Kiefer Robotics LLC

Weehawken, NJ, USA

An Overview Of Our Solution

Too often are evil deeds more famous than the generous and good. If the core of human activity is greed, we seek to change the world by acknowledging and making good deeds more famous than evil deeds. If climate change action is to be changed we must recognize those who have started it.

Who is this solution impacting?
Ecosystem
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Additional Information
  • Population Impacted: 100,000,000
  • Continent:
General Information

Last name

Kiefer

Organization type

Other

Email

mkiefer@andrew.cmu.edu
Challenge

Context Analysis

If good deeds are not made publicly known then what is the extra incentive for people to do them apart from rare good will. Remember that people often do what they do out of greed and to advance their own lives. If taking part in climate change action is required to be part of their agenda to advance their lives then it is possible to have a major social change in climate change action.

Only 45 percent think that global warming will pose a serious problem in their life, and only 43 percent say they worry a great deal about climate change. The best way to deal with this issue is not with the typical psychology tactic of bringing the danger closer, but by including it in people's greed to take advantage of.

Solution

Describe the technical solution you wanted the target audience to adopt

I would like their to be social functions or movies published about average citizens improving the environment. In addition, tax cuts to those that provide a significant amount of environmental protection should be established.

Type of intervention

Emotional appeal
Social incentives

Describe your behavioral intervention

I am trying to prevent human greed and industrialization that over good people as well as make them only consumed by their work. By making environmental protection part of their work it is unavoidable for them not to be involved in climate change action.

As needed, please explain the type of intervention in more detail

We need economic and social intervention to convince people that in order to improve their own lives they need to improve that of the environment. Leaflets, tax cuts, or films about their environmental achievements need to be recorded.

Implementation

Describe your implementation

Specific activities of motivating people in climate change action: recycling programs to motivate people to reduce trash and litter, donating money through charity events (ex: marathons, math competition) for climate change
Ensuring change in behavior: Create inspirational movies for encouragement and making people famous for their good deeds
Enabling conditions: Favorable media companies for promoting good environment deeds
Key success factors: Friendly and open examples of way to contribute to climate change action
Obstacles: Funding for climate change action

External connections

Key partners include venture capitalists who are willing to fund the potential implementation I suggested. Government subsidies are also a possibility.

Results

Who adopted the desired behaviors and to what degree?

Anyone with a passion to help and is inspired to be recognized for their heroic acts of saving the environment.

How did you impact natural resource use and greenhouse gas emissions?

Through public displays and through incentives people can positively reduce natural resources through recycling, donation, or other environmental ways.

What were some of the resulting co-benefits?

The local and regional communities are inspired by such actions of daring to improve the environment. The great co-benefit is that it can affect all areas of the environment such as economic development, food security, and biodiversity conservation.

Replication and Scale

Sustainability

It does not need grant funding, but government subsidies and market-based revenue. Government subsidies are need to give tax cuts to people who give the most help to climate change action. In addition, investors or companies can support firms that invest in green technology or that require employees to have climate change action.

Return on investment

Government subsidies can start with a 0.5% tax cut for income taxes and can increase it to 1% if people carry out climate change action for at least 3 years. In addition, market ventures can only fund and support companies that require employees to carry out climate change action activities.

How could we successfully replicate this solution elsewhere?

Training might be needed on supervising employees at companies on how to take proper climate change action.

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