- While more Americans viewed the current economic crisis as their number one concern (60%), compared to 45% of Europeans and 40% of Chinese, most Europeans placed the climate change challenge as their top priority.
- Yet, their governments would not be up to the challenge.
- Though the survey pointed to only the French being willing to turn down their thermostats to 19 degrees, likely due to the government’s summer campaign promoting the idea, those from other EU countries are much less in favour as 27% of Germans, 20% of Austrians, 12% of Romanians and 4% of Cypriots would do so.
Europeans lose faith in governments to prevent climate catastrophe
