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In Response to Climate Change, Citizens in Advanced Economies Are Willing To Alter How They Live and Work
Publics are divided over the economic impact of international actions to address global climate change
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- In Response to Climate Change, Citizens in Advanced Economies Are Willing To Alter How They Live and Work
- People across world greatly concerned about climate change and willing to make sacrifices to address it, but there is less confidence in efforts to solve the problem
- Intense concern about the personal effects of climate change has increased sharply in several major economies since 2015
- Younger adults tend to be more concerned than older counterparts that climate change will harm them
- Ideological left is more willing to adjust lifestyle in response to climate change
- Internationally, EU, UN climate response earns mostly high praise, while U.S. and China get poor marks
- Many are concerned climate change will personally harm them during their lifetimes
- Rising concern that climate change will cause personal harm-07
- Those on ideological left are more likely to be concerned about personal harm of climate change than those on the right
- Women are more concerned about the harm of climate change than men in many advanced economies
- Most people in publics surveyed are willing to make at least some changes to their lives to help reduce the effects of climate change
- Young adults are more likely than older adults in some countries to be willing to make lifestyle changes to help reduce the effects of climate change
- Willingness to change behavior to reduce effects of climate change is tied to education
- Majorities in Europe confident in own public’s response to climate change
- Ideological divides in evaluation of climate change handling
- Doubts that international community can reduce effects of climate change are common but not ubiquitous
- Those with a favorable view of UN more likely to have confidence in international climate change action
- Publics are divided over the economic impact of international actions to address global climate change
- Left-leaning adults are generally more likely than those on right to see climate change efforts as boon to economy
- EU and UN receive generally higher ratings on climate response than U.S. or China
- Majorities praise the EU’s response to global climate change
- UN response to global climate change elicits generally positive responses
- Most disapprove of U.S. handling of climate change
- Ideological right is more enthusiastic about U.S. approach to climate change
- Advanced economies disapprove of how China is handling global climate change