Ahead of the global climate conference COP24, taking place in Poland on 3-14 December 2018, the European Investment Bank has launched a first-of-its-kind climate survey, in partnership with the global public opinion company YouGov, to find out how 25 000 citizens feel towards climate change in the European Union, the United States and China.

Discover below some visualisations of the key findings from the second of six releases.

You can download the results data set here.

The economic potential of climate action in the world – mixed feelings

The infographics below show the citizens’ level of optimism towards the economic potential of climate action – meaning the ability of climate-related investments to boost economic growth and create new jobs – in the world and in the European Union. Results show that US citizens are the most optimistic compared to citizens in the EU and China, with 26% of US citizens convinced that measures to combat climate change will have a positive impact on their country’s economic growth and on the job market, against 21% in the EU and only 11% in China.

Within the EU, the level of optimism varies greatly, with Malta and Cyprus being the most optimistic with respectively 30% and 29% of respondents believing in the economic potential of climate action and the Czech Republic and Slovakia being the least optimistic about its potential with only 8% and 11% respectively agreeing.