Willingness to engage in energy conservation and CO2 emissions reduction: An empirical investigation

8th International Symposium of the Digital Earth

地球科学;计算机科学

Eluwa, S.E.^1 ; Siong, H.C.^1

Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia^1

关键词: Behavioural changes;    Carbon taxes;    CO2 emissions;    Developed countries;    Empirical investigation;    Environmental consequences;    Level of educations;    Mitigation policies;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012155/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012155

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Africa's response to climate change has largely been focused on adaptation rather than mitigation. The reason for this is based on the fact that the continent contributes very little to global CO2emission. Again, mitigation policies like carbon tax as being practised in developed countries may be costly and difficult to implement in a continent where most economies are fragile. Using behavioural change as an adaptation approach, we examined the opinion of Ibadan city residents towards energy conservation and CO2emissions reduction. A total of 822 respondents were sampled across the three residential neighbourhoods of the city. Results from the study showed that female and male respondents differed in their opinion towards energy conservation. However, the female respondents tended to record higher mean scores on majority of the items used to capture energy conservation behaviour than their male counterparts. Also, those with higher level of education seemed to be more conscious of the environmental consequences arising from energy use at home than those with lower educational background. However, very slight variations were recorded in the mean value score across the different age groups, those respondents above 50 years scored a bit higher than other age groups.