About the Authors

J. N. Rooney-Varga

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Juliette_RooneyVarga@uml.edu.

Affiliation UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative and Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

J. D. Sterman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation System Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

E. Fracassi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Escuela de Ingeniería y Gestión, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

T. Franck

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Climate Interactive, Washington, DC, United States of America

F. Kapmeier

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ESB Business School, Reutlingen, Germany

V. Kurker

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative and Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

E. Johnston

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Climate Interactive, Washington, DC, United States of America

A. P. Jones

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Climate Interactive, Washington, DC, United States of America

K. Rath

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SageFox Consulting Group, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare the following competing interests: The funder provided support in the form of salaries for authors JRV and KM, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Author KR is employed by SageFox Consulting Group, which provided support in the form of KR’s salary, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.