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How Risk Explains the Climate Divide Pathway
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About How Risk Explains the Climate Divide Pathway
4 Learning modules
33 minutes of learning
4.8 rating
Competent level
Why do the climate community and financial markets struggle to align on the climate crisis? The climate crisis and financial markets often seem to be at odds. What’s behind this gap in understanding? Neuroscience could hold the key. In this pathway, Kris De Meyer unpacks the reasons why climate risk perceptions differ between the climate community and financial markets. Explore the cognitive biases, emotional responses, and psychological factors that influence decision-making in both sectors. By the end of this pathway, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how these factors shape the climate discourse and learn practical ways to bridge the perception gap for more effective climate action.
In this pathway
Understand the climate risk perception gap
Explore the role of neuroscience in bridging the gap
Identify strategies to address the climate crisis
Pathway experts
Kris De Meyer
16 years: Neuroscientist
Kris De Meyer, a neuroscientist at University College London, believes climate change is a 'people problem' influenced by how people perceive risk, communicate, and think about societal change. The Climate Action Unit aims to bridge communication and understanding gaps between different experts, such as climate scientists and decision-makers in policy, business, and finance, to address climate change and its impact on society.