HE climate change The first concern of Spanish citizens, with 29% of the first responses, is above even topics like wars or immigration. Other countries where climate change is of most concern include Italy (35%), Portugal (31%), France and Canada (both 27%); at least among the countries surveyed in one of the most prestigious global surveys.
The evolution of concerns about the climate threat since 2022 is increasing slightly in most countries, but Significant growth of at least seven percentage points in Spain (In 2022, this rate was 22%).
These are some of the main results of the study Transatlantic Trends 2023 held in 14 Western countries With 21,000 participants in attendance (1,500 per country), it focused on issues related to international politics and transatlantic relations. This is a study organized by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the BBVA Foundation.
Support for scientists; rejection of companies
Climate change is the most current non-cyclical concern in most countries, the survey shows. However, citizens do not equally value the role of different actors in the face of this threat: The balance is clearly in favor when it comes to the scientific community (on average more than 60% of the total answers say that they are doing “a lot” or “quite a lot” to combat climate change), controlled for NGOs and citizens (about 50% give both positive answers) and it happens negative in case of companies (below 45%). Spaniards evaluate the latter’s performance even more negatively (only 25% think he did too much or too little).
EU is doing “too much or not enough”
Majorities in European countries (58%) and the United States (50%) think so The EU as a whole is doing as much or not much in this fightHowever, this evaluation is diminished by the performance of the United States (41% on the EU average and 51% on the American average) and the performance of the government of the country to which the respondent belongs (48% on the EU average). This view becomes even more critical when it comes to assessing China’s contribution (below 30%).
In addition to being among the citizens most concerned about the climate threat, Spaniards are also among those who most negatively value the actions taken by different actors (both country governments and institutions) to combat this threat.
is Particularly critical of the views of the Spanish participants regarding the actions of China, the USA and the Spanish government itself.So do companies and citizens. Only the scientific community receives more than half (58%) of the responses in the two positive positions of “a lot” or “quite a lot” of effort against climate change.
Intense interest in global issues
There Intense interest of the population in global issues (The majority of respondents declare they are very or very interested in international affairs, with a global average of 70% adding both answers), but differences emerge when it comes to addressing common challenges.
There is a clear attitude in Europe that these challenges must be resolved cooperating only with other democratic countries (55% of the EU average think so)65% in Turkey, 43% in the UK and 45% in Canada) In the US, opinions are divided: 38% agree with this vision, but 40% think the country should cooperate with other countries. democratic or not.
Reference work: https://www.fbbva.es/noticias/rusia-guerra-desafios-europeos-norteamericanos-cambio-climatico/
Main results of the survey: https://www.fbbva.es/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/currentacion-transatlantic-rends-2023.pdf
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