ABSTRACT
Tackling climate change and transitioning to a low-carbon society require both political and individual action. This transition depends on increased alignment between decision makers’ mitigation strategies (to reduce or prevent emission of greenhouse gases) and citizens’ opinions about and attitudes to mitigation. This chapter describes the data on which the various analyses are based, as well as the methods employed. It reports on the citizens' topic prevalence concerning climate solutions, and then presents findings from a linguistic focus on questions related to obligation (deontic perspective), to responsibilities (actor perspective), and to the deliberation between different points of view expressed in the respondents' answers (polyphonic perspective). The questions investigated are related to the perspectives of obligation (what should or must be done), of responsibilities (who will/should undertake the various proposed actions or solutions), and of deliberation.
