SMEA Research Associate Stacia Dreyer led a study looking at views towards a carbon pricing policy before and after the 2013 federal election in Australia, which was the first nation to repeal an existing carbon pricing policy.

The report, “Australians’ views on carbon pricing before and after the 2013 federal election,” was published in Nature Climate Change. The study found policy acceptance was higher than support at both times, and acceptance did not always lead to support, highlighting the need to measure acceptance and support separately. “If we don’t distinguish between them, we run the risk of either underestimating acceptance or overestimating support,” Stacia Dreyer from UW Today’s article “Lessons from Australia: Understanding public support for carbon pricing.”

This is the third article from Dreyer’s dissertation to be published.