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In Response to Climate Change, Citizens in Advanced Economies Are Willing To Alter How They Live and Work
Ideological divides in evaluation of climate change handling
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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