Climate change - psychology's contribution

Climate change is a term on everybody's lips at the moment. But what role can we, as psychologists - both individually and within our subdisciplinary lay in reducing, and groups - play in reducing, and adapting to the impacts of, society's carbon footprint'? This article argues that the issue of climate change raises an important set of research and public policy questions that psychologists are well placed to help address. In particular, we focus on the issues of sustainable behaviour change and nuclear power.