Thread by @CAST_Centre

THREAD: How do people in the UK feel about #ClimateChange, & how willing are they to support climate policies or make lifestyle changes?

Our new wave 1 survey results reveal perceptions around:
🥩 Food
✈️ Travel & transport
🌡️ Heating
🛒 Consumption

Here are 5 key takeaways: 1/

Climate concern remains high.

39% of people were very or extremely worried about climate change, up from 25% four years ago. Only 7% describe themselves as 'not at all worried'. 2/

Most people support efforts to reduce air travel & overall material consumption but express less support for efforts to reduce meat consumption: Almost half think that we should definitely reduce the amount of energy we use, but only 24% feel the same way about meat. 3/

People tend to underestimate the role of greenhouse gas emissions from food and material consumption.

#CarFree travel options, reducing energy use at home, and flying less are seen by most people as the most impactful climate mitigation strategies. 4/

There is strong support for citizens' opinions to directly feed into political decisions about climate change. Almost half of respondents were supportive of political decision processes similar to a #CitizenAssembly.

5/

People are willing to consider changes to their own lifestyles - and we identified some widespread beliefs that could be barriers or challenges to lifestyle changes such as positive emotions associated with consumption of products and meat. 6/

Download the full briefing and infographic, with lots more detail on perceptions of urgency, the impact of #covid, support for specific policies, and beliefs linked to high carbon lifestyles.

Briefing 👉 bit.ly/cast-08
Infographic 👉 bit.ly/CAST-wave1-gra…