DISTANCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE CONSEQUENCES REDUCES WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IN LOW-COST MITIGATION ACTIONS-RESULTS FROM AN EXPERIMENTAL ONLINE STUDY FROM GERMANY.

Adverse consequences of climate change often affect people and places far away from those that have the greatest capacity for mitigation.Several correlational and some experimental studies suggest that the willingness to take mitigation actions may diminish with increasing distance.However, the empirical findings are ambiguous.In order to investiga