Low-Cost Climate-Change Informational Intervention Reduces Meat Consumption Among Students for 3 Years

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This study found that an intervention designed to raise awareness about how meat consumption contributes to climate change had lasting effects on students’ meat consumption. Three years after the intervention, students continued to consume 5.6 percentage points less meat, similar to when the intervention occurred. The authors conclude that information interventions can be cost-effective and produce durable change.