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Perception and motivation challenges for decarbonization

March 7, 2024, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

UBC Vancouver - Kenny 4001

Shahzeen Attari is giving a colloquium in psychology (Kenny 4001) from 12:30-2pm this Thursday, March 7.  

Following her talk, there will be a catered lunch for graduate students from 2-3pm. Anyone interested in the lunch can email Sakshi to sign up (sakshi.sahakari@ubc.ca). 

Solutions to climate change rest on science, technology, political will, and public support. In this talk, I will discuss efforts from our lab that aim to address problems related to human behavior, resource use, and climate change. Using methods that have strong links to environmental and psychological science, I will discuss highlights from our research ranging from perceptions of household-level energy use to state- and country-level energy mixes, and ways to correct misperceptions. I will discuss motivating factors for decarbonization solutions and some challenges we will need to address. I will end with a brief overview of our current ongoing work that deals with low carbon technology uptake. I would love to engage with you all on the path forward. You can find out more about our work here: www.szattari.com

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We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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