2026-10-12T19:38:45Z https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai

oai:figshare.com:article/33803347 2026-09-15T15:35:55Z portal_1197 item_type_3 month_year_09_2026

Data for Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation Julián Vinces (24943213) Nereida Bueno-Guerra (5916212) Mario Gutiérrez-Roig (2994504) Carlos Gracia-Lázaro (5663503) Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes (262529) Josep Perelló (2994507) Angel Sánchez (89173) Yamir Moreno (211486) Jordi Duch (114067) Climate change mitigation Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on Climatic changes -- Government policy -- International cooperation Climatic changes -- Law and legislation -- International cooperation Migrated from ePrints Climate change mitigation is a shared global challenge that involves the collective action of a set of individuals with different tendencies to cooperation. However, we lack an understanding of the effect of resource inequality when diverse actors interact together toward a common goal. Here, we report the results of a collective-risk dilemma experiment in which groups of individuals were initially given either equal or unequal endowments. We found that the effort distribution was highly inequitable, with participants with fewer resources contributing significantly more to the public goods than the richer - sometimes twice as much. An unsupervised learning algorithm classified the subjects according to their individual behavior, finding the poorest participants within two "generous clusters'" and the richest into a "greedy cluster''. Our results suggest that policies would benefit from educating about fairness and reinforcing climate justice actions addressed to vulnerable people instead of focusing on understanding generic or global climate consequences.<br><br>Data record consists of 5 data files in .xlsx and .csv format, labelled according to their contents. 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z Dataset Dataset 10.82444/warw.33803347.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Resource_heterogeneity_leads_to_unjust_effort_distribution_in_climate_change_mitigation/33803347 CC BY 4.0