探討我國青年的氣候行動及影響因子

Abstract

近年世界經濟論壇發布的《全球風險報告》皆指出氣候變遷造成的風險不容小覷，為此揭示氣候變遷是具高度危機性的全球問題。面臨氣候危機，青年世代未來將會擔負更大的角色，為應對氣候變遷的重要力量之一，且青年採取的氣候行動對於人類的永續發展至關重要。此外，近年有越來越多國外文獻，針對氣侯行動之影響因子進行探究，甚至著手有別於過去傳統聚焦在個人化的氣候行動因子，而是以其他的框架與模型，詮釋現今影響氣候行動的因素。為此，本研究結合多個模型與架構，進而更全面性探討我國青年採取氣候行動的確切原因。本研究以我國青年為研究對象，採量化研究之問卷調查法，以立意取樣方式進行問卷發放，共回收1,566份有效問卷。藉以氣候變遷素養、集體行動之社會認同模型(SIMCA)以及健康信念模型(HBM)為架構，以瞭解青年氣候行動的現況，並探究影響青年採取氣候行動的關鍵因子。研究結果顯示，我國青年具有相當高的氣候行動意願，但實踐層面較著重「軟行動」層面，包含搜尋氣候相關資訊之技能、採取氣候說服行動、實踐氣候友善消費等。此外，影響青年採取行動的因素有知識構面中的內容知識、情意構面中的自我效能，以及集體模型中的恐懼和社會認同，故提升青年採取的氣候行動，可以透過增加氣候相關的內容知識或是強化自我效能感與社會認同感，進而促進其採取氣候相關行動。

Global Risk Report issued by Global Economic forum points out risks caused by climate change in 2022 should not be ignored, revealing that climate change is a highly critical global issue. In the face of the climate crisis, youth generations will play a significant role in tackling climate change in the future. which also supports sustainable development. In addition, there have been more and more foreign literatures exploring the affecting factors of climate action in recent years. Instead of traditionally focusing on individual climate action factors in the past, recent researches adopt other frameworks and models to explain factors affecting climate action nowadays. Therefore, this study combines multiple models and frameworks into the research for the purpose of more comprehensively and precisely exploring factors that drive youth to take climate action.With young people in Taiwan as the targeted population, the study is designed as an quantitative study based on questionnaire survey, and totally collects 1,566 valid samples through purposive sampling. This research adopts the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA) , Health Belief Model (HBM), and the framework of climate change literacy, to explore the climate action of the youth in Taiwan and the corresponding affecting factors.The findings indicate that our youths have a high willingness to take climate action, but focuses more on the level of soft action when putting into practice, which includes the skills of searching for climate-related information, taking climate persuasive actions, and practicing climate-friendly consumption. In addition, the factors that affect youths to take action include content knowledge in the knowledge dimension, self-efficacy in the affective dimension, and fear and social identity in the collective model. Therefore, to promote youths to take climate action can be achieved by enhancing climate-related content knowledge or strengthening self-efficacy and social identity, which in turn enables them to take climate-related actions.