Emotional Engagement for Climate Action

• This is high anxiety = more pro-environmental behaviours
  Pro-Environmental Behavior and Climate Change Anxiety, Perception, Hope, and Despair According to Political Orientation

• This shows anger has the only predictor of pro-environmental behaviours

• This shows eco-anger and eco-depression as motivation to joining pro-climate activism
  • From anger to action: Differential impacts of eco-anxiety, eco-depression, and eco-anger on climate action and wellbeing
  • When eco-anger (but not eco-anxiety nor eco-sadness) makes you change! A temporal network approach to the emotional experience of climate change

• This shows that positive emotions around pro-climate action in youths is less prevalent that anger and anxiety
  • Uncovering Emotion in Youth Digital Civic Participation Around Climate Change: Entanglements of Fear, Despair, and Anger in Civic Practice

• Constructive Hope (not uncritical optimistic hope) as positively related to engagement
  • Hope and climate-change engagement from a psychological perspective
  • How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization
  • How do I feel when I think about taking action? Hope and boredom, not anxiety and helplessness, predict intentions to take climate action

• Fear is mediated by hope, hope propels action, collection action generates fear and managers fear

• How to foster hope?
  • Exploring the essential psychological factors in fostering hope concerning climate change