Public Opinion

Americans vastly underestimate how many others support bold climate policies, by nearly half, revealing a ‘false social reality’ that stifles collective action on climate change.

Latin Americans widely accept climate change and its human causes, but a surprising number doubt its severity, revealing new challenges for climate action in the region.

Cross-national survey of climate beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support across multiple countries. Provides the comparative baseline most single-country studies lack.

The 2024 survey is bigger in terms of countries: people in 77 countries, representing 87% of the world’s population, were asked their views on climate change.

Finds a systematic gap between actual public support for climate action and perceived public support — people think others are less supportive than they are. Has direct implications for social norm messaging.

ADEME’s barometer reveals rising anxiety and pessimism in 2025, alongside stagnant personal motivation to reduce emissions — even as demand grows for public policy to take action instead.

Nearly half of Indians say they know little or nothing about "global warming", yet 96% believe it's happening once it's explained. Yale's survey finds awareness lagging far behind concern, with 78% wanting their government to do more.

First large-scale survey of climate policy attitudes across seven major Global South countries. Challenges the assumption that Global South publics are less supportive of climate action than Northern ones.

Updated edition of Climate Outreach's signature UK segmentation study, mapping where British publics stand on climate and nature in 2025. Essential for UK-facing communications strategy.

Yale's look at climate opinion in Indonesia — the world's fourth most populous country, probing everything from policy support to how Islamic charitable giving could fund the energy transition. The headline: Indonesians barely recognize the term "climate change," yet once it's briefly explained, belief, worry, and policy support all run high.

Parlons Climat's 2026 study, surveying 5,000 French people, finds declining public backing concentrated on the right, even as two-thirds now know someone living a "greener" lifestyle, and health — not climate alone — is emerging as the issue that unites.

Americans increasingly know climate change harms health — but that knowledge now splits almost entirely along party lines. A decade of data on who understands what, and who they'd actually trust to tell them.