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The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary
Human behaviour change is necessary to meet targets set by the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change. Restrictions and regulations put in place globally to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 have had a substantial impact on everyday life, including many carbon-intensive behaviours such...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37228472 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000032 |
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author | Corker, Elizabeth Mitev, Kaloyan Nilsson Lewis, Astrid Tamis, Milan Bouman, Thijs Holmlid, Stefan Lambe, Fiona Michie, Susan Osborne, Matthew Jan Renes, Reint Steg, Linda Whitmarsh, Lorraine |
author_facet | Corker, Elizabeth Mitev, Kaloyan Nilsson Lewis, Astrid Tamis, Milan Bouman, Thijs Holmlid, Stefan Lambe, Fiona Michie, Susan Osborne, Matthew Jan Renes, Reint Steg, Linda Whitmarsh, Lorraine |
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description | Human behaviour change is necessary to meet targets set by the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change. Restrictions and regulations put in place globally to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 have had a substantial impact on everyday life, including many carbon-intensive behaviours such as transportation. Changes to transportation behaviour may reduce carbon emissions. Behaviour change theory can offer perspective on the drivers and influences of behaviour and shape recommendations for how policy-makers can capitalise on any observed behaviour changes that may mitigate climate change. For this commentary, we aimed to describe changes in data relating to transportation behaviours concerning working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. We display these identified changes in a concept map, suggesting links between the changes in behaviour and levels of carbon emissions. We consider these changes in relation to a comprehensive and easy to understand model of behaviour, the Opportunity, Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model, to understand the capabilities, opportunities and behaviours related to the observed behaviour changes and potential policy to mitigate climate change. There is now an opportunity for policy-makers to increase the likelihood of maintaining pro-environmental behaviour changes by providing opportunities, improving capabilities and maintaining motivation for these behaviours. |
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spelling | pubmed-102083422023-05-24 The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary Corker, Elizabeth Mitev, Kaloyan Nilsson Lewis, Astrid Tamis, Milan Bouman, Thijs Holmlid, Stefan Lambe, Fiona Michie, Susan Osborne, Matthew Jan Renes, Reint Steg, Linda Whitmarsh, Lorraine UCL Open Environ Open Commentary Human behaviour change is necessary to meet targets set by the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change. Restrictions and regulations put in place globally to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 have had a substantial impact on everyday life, including many carbon-intensive behaviours such as transportation. Changes to transportation behaviour may reduce carbon emissions. Behaviour change theory can offer perspective on the drivers and influences of behaviour and shape recommendations for how policy-makers can capitalise on any observed behaviour changes that may mitigate climate change. For this commentary, we aimed to describe changes in data relating to transportation behaviours concerning working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. We display these identified changes in a concept map, suggesting links between the changes in behaviour and levels of carbon emissions. We consider these changes in relation to a comprehensive and easy to understand model of behaviour, the Opportunity, Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model, to understand the capabilities, opportunities and behaviours related to the observed behaviour changes and potential policy to mitigate climate change. There is now an opportunity for policy-makers to increase the likelihood of maintaining pro-environmental behaviour changes by providing opportunities, improving capabilities and maintaining motivation for these behaviours. UCL Press 2022-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10208342/ /pubmed/37228472 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000032 Text en © 2022 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Open Commentary Corker, Elizabeth Mitev, Kaloyan Nilsson Lewis, Astrid Tamis, Milan Bouman, Thijs Holmlid, Stefan Lambe, Fiona Michie, Susan Osborne, Matthew Jan Renes, Reint Steg, Linda Whitmarsh, Lorraine The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary |
title | The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary |
title_full | The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary |
title_fullStr | The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary |
title_short | The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the netherlands, sweden and the uk: a data-based commentary |
topic | Open Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37228472 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000032 |
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