Public Impact and Engagement
Overview
Lens 3 focuses on how people understand, experience and shape the transition to net zero. It explores public attitudes, behaviours and values to ensure policies are fair, trusted and effective.
Our Approach
Transforming production and consumption requires a clear understanding of how policies affect people’s lives and how people respond to them.
This lens examines:
- Public attitudes towards climate change and net zero
- Perceptions of fairness and trust in institutions
- How people engage with policies as citizens, consumers, workers and community members
While concern about climate change is high, support for specific policies depends on:
- Cost and affordability
- Clarity and ease of action
- Trust in government and institutions
- Perceived fairness
We also address a key challenge: the ‘perception gap’ between public attitudes and policymakers’ assumptions about them.
Our Ambitions
We are aiming to strengthen the role of public insight in shaping effective climate policy.
Key ambitions include:
- Improving understanding of public attitudes and lived experiences
- Ensuring policies are designed with fairness and public trust at their core
- Bridging the gap between evidence and policymaking
- Supporting more inclusive and participatory approaches to decision-making
Delivering Impact
We use a combination of research and engagement to bring public perspectives into policy:
- Synthesising existing evidence on public attitudes and behaviours
- Conducting new research to address key knowledge gaps
- Supporting government engagement strategies, including public participation
- Working with policymakers to apply insights in decision-making
- Facilitating dialogue between policy, research and public perspectives
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