Public attitudes toward climate change: findings from a multi-country poll

Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA); World Bank

Public attitudes toward climate change: findings from a multi-country poll

dc.contributor.author	Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)
dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2010-10-06T13:26:40Z
dc.date.available	2010-10-06T13:26:40Z
dc.date.issued	2010-07
dc.description.abstract	The World Bank‘s World Development Report 2010 on Climate Change and Development commissioned an international poll of public attitudes to climate change. The poll is the first to specifically target developing countries and ask a comprehensive set of questions regarding climate policy. The poll aims to a) provide the public in developing countries with an avenue to make their voices heard in a debate often dominated by developed countries‘ views, and b) provide decision makers with a tool to assess the state of public views on climate change in their countries. Various World Bank departments contributed to the design of the poll.1 The polling was conducted among 15,518 respondents in 16 nations— Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Senegal, Turkey, the United States, and Vietnam. The surveys were carried out by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a collaborative project involving research centers from around the world, managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland. The margins of error for each country range from +/-3 to 4 percentage points. The surveys were conducted across the different nations between September and December 2009. The results were released ahead of the COP-15 in Copenhagen, and were covered extensively by different media outfits worldwide (see annex). They also provided the material to a series of blog posts (http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange). The poll addresses the following dimensions: a) level of concern, b) beliefs about climate change, c) attitudes toward international cooperation on climate change,; and d) willingness to bear economic costs to support national actions.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/10746
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subject	Climate change	en_US
dc.subject	Developing countries	en_US
dc.subject	World Bank	en_US
dc.subject	World Development Report	en_US
dc.subject	Climate policy	en_US
dc.title	Public attitudes toward climate change: findings from a multi-country poll	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US