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Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research

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Anthropogenic climate change poses a substantial threat to societal living conditions. Here, we argue that neuroscience can substantially contribute to the fight against climate change and provide a framework and a roadmap to organize and prioritize neuroscience research in this domain. We outline how neuroscience can be used to: (1) investigate the negative impact of climate change on the human brain; (2) identify ways to adapt; (3) understand the neural substrates of decisions with pro-environmental and harmful outcomes; and (4) create neuroscience-based insights into communication and intervention strategies that aim to promote climate action. The paper is also a call to action for neuroscientists to join broader scientific efforts to tackle the existential environmental threats Earth is currently facing.

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This work was supported in part by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to K.C.D. (grant no. P400PS_190997), a National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Communities grant (grant no. CNS-1952050) to M.G.B., and grants from the John Templeton Foundation and Jigsaw to J.J.V.B. We would like to thank B. Todorova for her assistance with editing and formatting the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Kimberly C. Doell, Claus Lamm & Sabine Pahl

  2. Department of Psychology and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Kimberly C. Doell & Tobias Brosch

  3. Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Kimberly C. Doell & Jay J. Van Bavel

  4. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Marc G. Berman

  5. School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Gregory N. Bratman

  6. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Brian Knutson

  7. Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

    Simone Kühn

  8. Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Nik Sawe

  9. Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Doell, K.C., Berman, M.G., Bratman, G.N. et al. Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13, 1288–1297 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01857-4

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