CET Lunch: Towards a Northern European market for handling of CO2 - patterns of citizens' acceptance and resistance

Our speaker will attend in person. Participants can sign up and tune in via stream, or turn up at CET where lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.

Through the last 6 years and across three different projects we have sought to establish knowledge about how transport and storage of CO2 across countries affect citizens' opinions about CCS in a time where large scale projects are about to be realized. In this presentation I will summarize the main findings coming out of these projects. First, we consistently find that Norwegians are more knowledgeable about CCS and more positive towards CCS than citizens in other countries. Second, we find that irrespective of knowledge levels, respondents penalize projects including cross-country movement of CO2 for storage. Third, we find that the respondents most negative towards trading with energy, be it CO2 or electricity, tend to be more inward-looking, meaning they hold isolationist and anti-trade opinions.

About the speaker

Åsta is a political scientist, specialized in political behavior and a survey expert. She works as an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Government, UiB, and her research interests are broad, including public attitudes towards climate change and climate policy. She currently heads the RCN-funded project "Does the nationality of CO2 matter? Public perceptions of a Northern European market for CO2 storage" (CCSMARKET).