Optimizing Nudges for Climate Change: Insights From Behavioral and Environmental Economics
August 2024
Citation:
54
ELR 10646
Issue
8
Prof. Felix Mormann’s Climate Choice Architecture comprehensively catalogs and classifies different types of nudge interventions that can be used to combat climate change. He argues that choice architecture can complement command-and-control mandates, market-based incentives, and other forms of regulation while also acknowledging its limitations. Despite choice architecture’s shortcomings, this Comment wholeheartedly concurs that it is an underutilized tool in the environmental policymaker’s toolbox, and makes two recommendations drawn from the academic behavioral and environmental economics literature to supplement Professor Mormann’s article.