How psychology can help limit climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has encouraged psychologists to become part of the integrated scientific effort support achievement climate change targets such as keeping within 1.5°C or 2°C global warming. To date, typical psychological approach been demonstrate that specific concepts and theories can predict behaviors contribute mitigate change. Psychologists need go further and, in particular, show integrating into feasible interventions reduce greenhouse gas emissions far more than would be achieved without integration. While critiquing some aspects current approaches, we describe research is pointing way by distinguishing different types behavior, acknowledging sociocultural context, collaborating with other disciplines. Engaging this challenge offers new opportunities for promoting mitigation, advancing understanding, developing better interdisciplinary interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).