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Efforts to achieve emissions targets often fall short. Science can help meet the targets by assessing the feasibility of initiatives proposed to reach them, focusing on issues of adoption and implementation and the behavioural plasticity of intended responders.

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Fig. 1: Steps from proposed initiatives to actual mitigation.

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K.S.N. gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Carlsberg Foundation (grant no. CF20-0285). T.D was supported by Michigan AgBio Research.

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  1. Social and Environmental Research Institute, Shelburne Falls, MA, USA

    Paul C. Stern

  2. Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Thomas Dietz

  3. Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

    Thomas Dietz

  4. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Kristian S. Nielsen

  5. School of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Wei Peng

  6. Vanderbilt Law School, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Michael P. Vandenbergh

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Stern, P.C., Dietz, T., Nielsen, K.S. et al. Feasible climate mitigation. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13, 6–8 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01563-7

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