Silvia Pianta

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Silvia Pianta holds a PhD in Public Policy from Bocconi University and is currently a Junior Scientist at EIEE. She is the deputy coordinator of the Horizon Europe Project CAPABLE. Her research focuses on environmental policy and politics. In her work, she investigates the determinants of environmental attitudes and behaviors, climate policy preferences, public attention to climate change, and the impact of environmental change on political behavior. She also works on bridging empirical research and climate mitigation modeling, focusing on how to incorporate insights from social and political science in the modeling of climate mitigation pathways.



 

Is There Really a Risk of Public Backlash Against Climate Policy?
2024

The concept of green backlash has recently become more salient in the news, in part due to the widespread farmers’ protests held in a number of European countries. However, there is so far not much robust empirical evidence of an electoral penalty against governments that implement ambitious climate policies.