International public opinion on climate change

The report is a global survey of Facebook users across 187 countries and territories describing their climate change beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and behaviors. The report finds that climate change is happening but finds vast differences in awareness among people in the developing and developed worlds. The initial report highlights the topline findings of the survey. The authors will soon provide further analysis related to views on the links between climate change and extreme weather in the Global South, as well as public adoption of and barriers to behaviors that can reduce personal and household CO2 emissions in the Global North.

The report also presents results from a subset of 99,453 responses comes from 73 countries, territories, and geographic groups classified as “low-emissions”, based on below-average per-capita CO2 emissions and low per-capita income. Respondents were asked about their experiences with and preparedness for different kinds of extreme weather and climate-related hazards. They were also asked how much they thought climate change had contributed to the most recent event they had experienced.