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Tosun, Jale, Geese, Lucas 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5085-5029 and Lorenzoni, Irene
(2023)
For young and future generations? Insights from the web profiles of European Climate Pact ambassadors.
European Journal of Risk Regulation, 14 (4).
pp. 747-759.
ISSN 2190-8249
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Abstract
The European Climate Pact provides opportunities for individuals, communities and organisations to declare their commitment to climate action. This study analyses the publicly available web profiles of the European Climate Pact Ambassadors (PAs) as of January 2023. First, it explores the extent to which people who volunteer as PAs demonstrate commitment to young and future generations. Second, it investigates whether PAs who self-identify as young people are more likely than other PAs to justify their mandate by referring to the interests of young and future generations. Third, it examines whether PAs who self-identify as young people are more likely to indicate other young people as the target audience of their activities. The manual coding and quantitative analysis of the PAs’ web profiles revealed that members of older generations as well as parents and grandparents are most likely to rationalise their engagement in the programme by referring to young and future generations. The data also showed that young people do target other young people when they act as PAs, but they are not the only group to do so. When compared to individuals with other professional identities, educators are also more likely to flag young people as their target audience.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Part of Special Issue 4 on Long-Term Risks and Future Generations. Financial support: The research was supported by the DeepDCarb Project funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant (Grant Number: 882601) and the Jean Monnet Network Green Deal-NET. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ambassadors' programme,european climate pact,european union,future generations,social groups,young generation,law,safety research,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3308 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2023 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2024 02:17 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93005 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/err.2023.53 |
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