Climate change is viewed as a major concern globally, with around 90 percent of respondents to a 2023 survey viewing it as a serious threat to humanity. developing nations often show the highest levels of concern, like in the Philippines where 96.7 percent of respondents acknowledge it as a serious threat. Rising emissions despite growing awareness Despite widespread acknowledgment of climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb. In 2023, emissions reached a record high of 53 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, marking a 60 percent increase since 1990. The power industry remains the largest contributor, responsible for 28 percent of global emissions. This ongoing rise in emissions has significant implications for global climate patterns and environmental stability. Temperature anomalies reflect warming trend In 2024, the global land and ocean surface temperature anomaly reached 1.29 degrees Celsius above the 20th-century average, the highest recorded deviation to date. This consistent pattern of positive temperature anomalies, observed since the 1980s, highlights the long-term warming effect of increased greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere. The warmest years on record have all occurred within the past decade.

According to a survey carried out in 2023 among Facebook users, around 88 percent of respondents in Mexico stated that climate change should be a government priority. On the other hand, only 45 percent of interviewees in Türkiye shared the same opinion.

Summary: Obs'COP 2022 – INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE OBSERVATORY AND PUBLIC OPINIONS The barometer of the perception of climate change in 30 countries. The fight against climate change is an existential issue that people seem to be aware of all over the world. To measure the progress of this mobilisation, to support the commitment of the people, EDF listens to the public opinion of 30 countries and makes available all the results of this unprecedented barometer produced by Ipsos. ####Detailed description: Learn about the main lessons from these results: Theme 1: Climate as a priority (Part A) Theme 2: Perception of climate change (Part B) Theme 3: CO2 production and energy (Part B) Theme 4: Stakeholder engagement (Part C) Theme 5: Act on a daily basis (part D) To get this study in more detail, i.e. the answering mesh per respondent in each country, you can go here: Obs'COP 2022 CLIMATE AND PUBLIC OPINIONS INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATORY. Source: This study is made available under the terms of the Licence Creative Commons Attribution – No Commercial Use – Sharing in the same 4.0 International Conditions. All figures, tables, graphs and information contained in these documents and on the site may be reproduced and used provided that the source is cited: “Obs'COP – EDF/IPSOS – October 2021”. Exploitation and reproduction of prohibited trademarks and logos.

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Obs’COP 2023 - CLIMATE AND PUBLIC OPINIONS INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATORY

The barometer of public opinion on climate change perception in 29 countries.

Fighting climate change is an existential challenge that seems to be gaining awareness worldwide. To measure how this mobilization is progressing and track engagement among populations day to day, EDF is now listening to public opinion in 29 countries and making available the findings of this brand new barometer conducted by Ipsos.

Detailed description:

Découvrez les principaux enseignements de ces résultats :

Thematic 1: Population concerns (part A)

Thematic 2: Knowledge and perception of climate change (part B)

Thematic 3: Mobilization of the various players (part C)

Thematic 4: Taking climate change into account on a day-to-day level (part D)

Thematic 5: Ideologies and values (part E)

Thematic 6: Focus on climate information/disinformation (part F)

To obtain this study in more detail, i.e. at the respondent-by-respondent level in each country, you can go here, at the bottom of the page to download the documents relating to the year 2023: Documentation Obs'COP

Source: This study is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License - No Commercial Use - Sharing under the Same Conditions 4.0 International.

All the figures, tables, graphs and information present in these documents and on the website can be reproduced and used on condition that the source is quoted : "Obs’COP - EDF / IPSOS - September 2023". Exploitation and reproduction of brands and logos prohibited.

Abstract

In partnership with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Facebook launched a Climate Change Opinion Survey that explores public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behaviors across 31 countries and territories. Aggregated data is available publicly on Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). De-identified microdata is also available to nonprofits and universities under a data license agreement through Facebook’s Data for Good (DFG) program. For more information please email dataforgood@fb.com.

Analysis unit

Public Aggregate Data on HDX: country or regional levels De-identified Microdata through Facebook Data for Good program: Individual level

Universe

The survey was fielded to active Facebook users ages 18+

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sampled Facebook users saw an invitation to answer a short survey at the top of their Facebook Newsfeed and had the option to click the invitation to complete the survey on the Facebook platform. The sample was drawn from the population of Facebook monthly active users, defined as registered and logged-in Facebook users who had visited Facebook through the website or a mobile device in the last 30 days.

Within each country or territory surveyed, Facebook drew a sample in proportion to publicly available age and gender benchmarks. The sample population in the United States was drawn in proportion to the U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey 2018 March Supplement. All other countries and territories were sampled in proportion to data from the United Nations Population Division 2019 World Population Projections. Data were weighted separately for each country and territory using a multi-stage, pre- and post-survey weighting process based on census and nationally representative survey benchmarks, Facebook demographics, and Facebook engagement metrics, balanced to the total number of survey completions.

Mode of data collection

Internet [int]

Research instrument

The survey includes questions about people’s climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behaviors. The codebook with survey questions is available here.

Response rate

Response rates to online surveys vary widely depending on a number of factors including survey length, region, strength of the relationship with invitees, incentive mechanisms, invite copy, interest of respondents in the topic and survey design. Facebook provides survey weights to help make the sample more representative of each country or territory’s population.

Sampling error estimates

Any survey data is prone to several forms of error and biases that need to be considered to understand how closely the results reflect the intended population. In particular, the following components of the total survey error are noteworthy:

Sampling error is a natural characteristic of every survey based on samples and reflects the uncertainty in any survey result that is attributable to the fact that not the whole population is surveyed.

Other factors beyond sampling error that contribute to such potential differences are frame or coverage error and nonresponse error.

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Obs’COP 2020 - CLIMATE AND PUBLIC OPINIONS INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATORY

The barometer of public opinion on climate change perception in 30 countries. Fighting climate change is an existential challenge that seems to be gaining awareness worldwide. To measure how this mobilization is progressing and track engagement among populations day to day, EDF is now listening to public opinion in 30 countries and making available the findings of this brand new barometer conducted by Ipsos.

Detailed description:

Découvrez les principaux enseignements de ces résultats :

Thematic 1: Population concerns (part A)

Thematic 2: Knowledge and perception of climate change (part B)

Thematic 3: Mobilization of the various players (part C)

Thematic 4: Taking climate change into account on a day-to-day level (part D)

To obtain this study in more detail, i.e. at the respondent-by-respondent level in each country, you can go here, at the bottom of the page to download the documents relating to the year 2020: Documentation Obs'COP

Source: This study is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License - No Commercial Use - Sharing under the Same Conditions 4.0 International.

All the figures, tables, graphs and information present in these documents and on the website can be reproduced and used on condition that the source is quoted : "Obs’COP - EDF / IPSOS - October 2020". Exploitation and reproduction of brands and logos prohibited.

Divestment is a prominent strategy championed by activists to induce positive social change. For example, the current fossil fuel divestment movement includes over 1,500 institutions that control $40 trillion in assets. A primary pathway through which divestment is theorized to be effective is by influencing public opinion and thus pressuring policymakers to take action. However, prior research only tests this argument via qualitative case studies. We assess the impact of exposure to information about fossil fuel divestment on public opinion through the use of national survey experiments in three major greenhouse gas emitters: the United States, India, and South Africa. Across a range of different types of treatments, we find surprisingly little evidence that exposure to information about the fossil fuel divestment movement can increase public support for policies that address climate change. Our findings suggest that divestment movements may be less effective at changing policy preferences than previously realized.

Almost ** percent of people in China believed that their government was working hard to tackle climate change, according to a 2023 survey. By comparison, less than *********** of respondents in Japan believed their government was working hard to tackle the climate crisis.

DGs CLIMA and ENER have published new Eurobarometer surveys showing strong public support for EU climate and energy policies. The surveys asked citizens from all EU Member States a variety of questions on current climate and energy policies and their wishes for future European action. Results were extremely encouraging with positive trends for citizens’ awareness of climate change, their desire for the EU and Member States to act, and willingness to take personal action to fight climate change. They also support prioritising an EU energy sector which is cleaner, more secure and more affordable. These surveys will be invaluable in shaping our climate and energy policies over the next five years. The survey results on EU climate policies is available in the reports on the Special Eurobarometer webpage.

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer

The current dataset is a subset of a large data collection based on a purpose-built survey conducted in seven middle-income countries in the Global South: Chile, Colombia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa and Vietnam. The purpose of the collected variables in the present dataset aims to understanding public preferences as a critical way to any effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are many studies of public preferences regarding climate change in the Global North. However, survey work in low and middle-income countries is limited. Survey work facilitating cross-country comparisons not using the major omnibus surveys is relatively rare.
We designed the Environment for Development (EfD) Seven-country Global South Climate Survey (the EfD Survey) which collected information on respondents’ knowledge about climate change, the information sources that respondents rely on, and opinions on climate policy. The EfD survey contains a battery of well-known climate knowledge questions and questions concerning the attention to and degree of trust in various sources for climate information. Respondents faced several ranking tasks using a best-worst elicitation format. This approach offers greater robustness to cultural differences in how questions are answered than the Likert-scale questions commonly asked in omnibus surveys. We examine: (a) priorities for spending in thirteen policy areas including climate and COVID-19, (b) how respiratory diseases due to air pollution rank relative to six other health problems, (c) agreement with ten statements characterizing various aspects of climate policies, and (d) prioritization of uses for carbon tax revenue. The company YouGov collected data for the EfD Survey in 2023 from 8400 respondents, 1200 in each country. It supplements an earlier survey wave (administered a year earlier) that focused on COVID-19. Respondents were drawn from YouGov’s online panels. During the COVID-19 pandemic almost all surveys were conducted online. This has advantages and disadvantages. Online survey administration reduces costs and data collection times and allows for experimental designs assigning different survey stimuli. With substantial incentive payments, high response rates within the sampling frame are achievable and such incentivized respondents are hopefully motivated to carefully answer the questions posed. The main disadvantage is that the sampling frame is comprised of the internet-enabled portion of the population in each country (e.g., with computers, mobile phones, and tablets). This sample systematically underrepresents those with lower incomes and living in rural areas. This large segment of the population is, however, of considerable interest in its own right due to its exposure to online media and outsized influence on public opinion. The data includes respondents’ preferences for climate change mitigation policies and competing policy issues like health. The data also includes questions such as how respondents think revenues from carbon taxes should be used. The outcome provide important information for policymakers to understand, evaluate, and shape national climate policies. It is worth noting that the data from Tanzania is only present in Wave 1 and that the data from Chile is only present in Wave 2.

In a survey conducted in Southeast Asia in November and December 2021, ********** of the respondents across all surveyed countries perceived climate change as an immediate threat or an important issue that should be monitored. In Brunei, *** percent of respondents chose one of these two answers, with no respondents in the country stating not to care about climate change or denying climate change.

The survey charted Finnish views on climate change. The respondents were asked what they thought climate change means, and whether it is real or not. Those who considered it real were asked whether they believed the problem to be man-made and serious, and whether they thought the rate of climate change to be increasing. The respondents were also asked to assess various statements on climate change discussed in the media. The respondents were asked whether they were interested in climate change issues and how well they knew them. In addition, they rated the importance of various media and information sources as suppliers of information on climate change. The study also examined which of these information sources Finns found reliable, and whether there was enough information available on climate change. The respondents were also asked to rate the quality of that information. Views on the consequences of climate change were probed by presenting the respondents with a set of attitudinal statements on global warming and its effects on a global scale and in Finland. Opinions on the biggest sources of the greenhouse gases were also investigated. The respondents also named possible ways of combating the climate change, and gave their opinions on what kind of measures the world will be able to take to combat it in the next few years. The importance of various bodies, organisations, and individual actions in fighting the global warming was examined. Background variables included respondent's gender, age group, basic and vocational education, occupational group, size of municipality, region (NUTS3), whether R belonged to any central organisations of Finnish trade unions, and which party R would vote for if the parliamentary elections were held at the time of the study.

This report presents the results of a survey on the attitudes of Europeans' towards climate change which was carried out in late August and September 2009. This survey mapped the opinion of Europeans on a range of climate change related topics, and in particular covers: covers 31 countries or territories: The 27 EU Member States, the three candidate countries (Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey) and the Turkish Cypriot Community in the area not controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus. It was commissioned by the Directorate- General Communication of the European Commission and was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social, a consortium formed by TNS and EOS Gallup Europe. ♦ Respondents’ perceptions of climate change in relation to other world problems. ♦ Respondents’ perceptions of the seriousness of climate change. ♦ Respondents’ perceptions about the actions of local, national governments as well as the EU in combating climate change ♦ Respondents' attitudes towards alternative fuels and CO² emissions. ♦ Whether respondents feel that climate change is stoppable or has been exaggerated, and what impact it has on the European economy. ♦ Whether respondents have taken personal action to fight climate change, and what those actions are. ♦ Perceived relative importance of the economy and the environment ♦ Europeans’ willingness to pay more for greener energy

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer

In 2022, some ** percent of Chileans agreed that their country's government needed to take immediate action to combat climate change or they will be failing its people, according to a survey conducted. Amongst the Latin American countries surveyed that same year, respondents in Brazil were the least likely to agree with the government's responsibility in taking action to combat climate change.

In 2021, eight out of ten people in all the countries surveyed worldwide believed that climate change was real. This survey's Italian and Spanish respondents ranked at the top of the list, with over 90 percent of the respondents believing in climate change.

The Arab Barometer Wave V 2018-2019 is based on a nationally representative probability sample of the population aged 18 and above. In most countries, the sample includes 2,400 citizens. The data were conducted in face-to-face public opinion surveys (CAPI and PAPI). See technical reports by country for country-specific information. You can find the data, codebooks and all relevant information on the Arab Barometer website.

Our dataset contains country weighted counts of different answer options and the re-weighted values of the answers given to the Arab Barometer Wave 5 question:

Q108 : How serious a problem do you think the following issues are: Is climate change a very serious problem, a somewhat serious problem, not a very serious problem, not at all a serious problem?

Get the country averages and aggregates from Zenodo

Get the plot in jpg or png from figshare.

See the detailed PDF documentation.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the modern age. As Europe takes action to meet its objectives, it is important to understand the attitudes and behaviour of EU citizens towards climate change and their expectations for the future. This Eurobarometer survey measures these and compares them with the last poll on this issue carried out in 2011. As Europe takes action to meet the objectives of preventing and minimising the impact of climate change, it is important to understand the attitudes and behaviour of the EU - Perceptions of climate change in relation to other world problems - Perceptions of the seriousness of climate change - Opinions on who within the EU is responsible for tackling climate change - Whether they agree or disagree that fighting climate change can boost the economy and jobs within the EU or that reducing the import of fossil fuel from outside the EU benefits the EU economy - Whether they have taken personal action to fight climate change and what actions they have taken - How important they think it is for their government to set targets to increase the amount of renewable energy by 2030 - How important they think it is for their government to provide support for improving energy efficiency #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: http://www.gesis.org/en/home/

Strong public support is a prerequisite for ambitious and thus costly climate change mitigation policy, and strong public concern over climate change is a prerequisite for policy support. Why, then, do most public opinion surveys indicate rather high levels of concern and rather strong policy support, while de facto mitigation efforts in most countries remain far from ambitious? One possibility is that survey measures for public concern fail to fully reveal the true attitudes of citizens due to social desirability bias. In this paper, we implemented list-experiments in representative surveys in Germany and the United States (N = 3620 and 3640 respectively) to assess such potential bias. We find evidence that people systematically misreport, that is, understate their disbelief in human caused climate change. This misreporting is particularly strong amongst politically relevant subgroups. Individuals in the top 20% of the income distribution in the United States and supporters of conservative parties in Germany exhibit significantly higher climate change skepticism according to the list experiment, relative to conventional measures. While this does not definitively mean that climate skepticism is a widespread phenomenon in these countries, it does suggest that future research should reconsider how climate change concern is measured, and what subgroups of the population are more susceptible to misreporting and why. Our findings imply that public support for ambitious climate policy may be weaker than existing survey research suggests.

The Eurobarometer series is a unique cross-national and cross-temporal survey program conducted on behalf of the European Commission. These surveys regularly monitor public opinion in the European Union (EU) member countries and consist of standard modules and special topic modules. The standard modules address attitudes towards European unification, institutions and policies, measurements for general socio-political orientations, as well as respondent and household demographics. The special topic modules address such topics as agriculture, education, natural environment and resources, public health, public safety and crime, and science and technology. This round of Eurobarometer surveys includes the standard modules and covers the following special topics: (1) Climate Change, (2) Biodiversity, (3) and Discrimination of Minority Groups. Respondent's opinions were collected on which world issues they believed were the most serious problems, how serious the issue of climate change was and if the EU should be responsible for addressing it, and what actions the have personally taken to fight climate change. Additional questions were asked regarding biodiversity and the dangers presented problems such as the decline of natural habitats and animal and plant species, and how these issues should be addressed by various groups. Respondents were also queried about their knowledge of Natura 2000 and other nature protection networks. Lastly, respondents were questioned regarding their experiences of and attitudes toward discrimination. Demographic and other background information collected includes age, gender, nationality, marital status and parental relations, occupation, age when stopped full-time education, left-right political self-placement, household composition, ownership of durable goods, difficulties in paying bills, self-assessed social class, and Internet use. In addition, country-specific data includes type and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview (select countries). Pre-archive/1st release version.

The project investigates (a) how staged global political media events (i.e. the global climate summits) are produced, and (b) which discursive effects these events have on national climate debates in the media of five leading democratic countries around the world, namely the U.S., Germany, India, South Africa and Brazil.

I. Formal and general content related categories 1. Formal variables: article-ID; coder-ID; title (main headline of the article); date of publication; media outlet (newspaper, magazine or news website in which the article was published); length of the article; format of the article (fact-based article, opinion-based article, interview, press review, stand-alone visual image as an independent article, letter to the editor, other); placement of the article (front page article or cover story, article inside the newspaper and magazine referenced on the front page, article inside the newspaper and magazine without reference on the front page); section of newspaper, magazine and news website; author of the article.

1. Content variables: article trigger (institutional events, unpremeditated (unplanned) events, communicative events, other event); UN Climate Change Conferences (COPs) reference; country references; international / transnational institutional references.

II. Visual level 1. Formal variables: visual present; photo present; number of visual images; number of photos; visual image-ID, type of visual image (photograph, photomontage, chart, map or table, cartoon / caricature, official logo of COP, topical vignette by newspaper or magazine); source of visual image. 2. Visual framing (if the visual image is a photograph or photomontage): denotative level: institutional reference depicted in the photo; content of the photo: urban landscape, natural landscape (woods, mountains and/ or lake, plants and/ or grassland / meadow), ocean and/or ocean coast, snow, ice, glacier, desert or steppe, polar bear, other animals, transportation or conventional traffic, agriculture, conventional energy generation, green technology, other industry / technology, PR stunt installation; person(s) depicted in the photo: political actor, NGO representative(s), business representatives, scientists, celebrities, police / security personnel, ordinary citizen(s), other type of person; origin of depicted person; activity of depicted person (e.g. symbolic activity, demonstration and other form of protest, etc.); location of depicted scene.

Stylistic level: camera angle, distance / field size of photo.

III. Narration: 1. Narrative characteristics: narratively (dramatization, emotion, narrative personalization, fictionalization, stylistic ornamentation); narrative genre: overall theme (everyday business, failure after struggle, triumph over adversity, struggle over destiny or planet or civilization, political or social conflict); tone (fatalistic, optimistic, unexcited, neutral, passionate, pessimistic); expected outcome; no conceivable outcome. 2. Character specification: character as victim: narrative role: victim present; victim type; victim name; victim action taken; character as villain: narrative role: villain present; villain type; villain name; villain action taken; character as hero: narrative role: hero present; hero type; hero name; hero action taken; sum of all actors in the article; sum of NGO representatives, politicians, representatives, international organizations, business representatives, scientists, journalists, citizens, and other actors.

IV. Actor-statement level Actors: actor-statement-ID; name of the actor; type of actor; occupation / office of actor; origin of actor; type of quotation; prominence of actor-statement; type of ´we´ reference; frames: denial of reality of global warming; denial of problematic character / urgency of action; cntral aspect of problem definition: increase of temperature, extreme weather, melting ice or glaciers / rising sea levels, economic opportunities due to global warming, economic difficulties and hardships due to global warming, other societal consequences; causal attribution (situations or processes the actor identifies as causing or contributing to global warming): natural causes; anthropogenic causes (burning of fossil fuels / greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, colliding national interests, other causes; countries responsible for causing global warming; endorsed and rejected remedies (no action should be taken, clean energy, reforestation and avoided deforestation); adaption action: adaption in agricultural production; adjusting political process: adoption of new legally binding, all-inclusive treaty on emission cuts; stronger focus on local efforts / working on the ground; other measures: financial assistance to disadvantaged countries; attributed responsibility for solving the problem.

Additionally coded was: country; COP (COP 16 Cancun, COP 17 Durban, COP 18 Doha, COP 19 Warsaw); 4 Cluster Solution Frames (political dispute, common...