Author: Sam Hampton, Researcher, Environmental Geography, University of Oxford

As climate change intensifies, rising public awareness and incremental behavioural changes will hopefully evolve into transformative action. We investigate how lifestyles and systems of governance need to change to bring about a sustainable, low-carbon future in the UK. Our research at the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations suggests that, among the UK public, there have been significant improvements in climate change knowledge, attitudes and behaviour over the past decade. Recycling rates are rising, energy use is falling, and polling shows that more voters factor climate change into their choice of which party to vote for. In a recent…