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Making sense of what people think about climate change.

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    Net Zero

    Reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 requires ongoing public support and a broad political mandate. How is opinion on net zero in the UK evolving?

    Net Zero

    Political Leadership

    The public want and expect political leadership on climate change. But in the context of historically low levels of trust in politicians, and widespread disengagement from the political system, how are perceptions of climate leadership holding up?

    Political Leadership

    Perception Gaps

    Politicians don’t always have an accurate impression of public opinion on climate change: what’s driving these misperceptions (and misrepresentations)?

    Perception Gaps

Climate Barometer explained

Climate Barometer helps you stay on top of public and political opinion in the UK. We curate the latest insights, provide data-driven perspectives, and run a climate opinion tracker with the UK public and MPs.

  • Clean Air Zones

    Clean air zones improve air quality, and influence urban travel choices. How is public opinion and political support influencing where and how these changes to our cities take shape?

    Clean Air Zones

    Cost of Living

    Rising costs and acute financial struggles are the dominant concern in opinion polls. How has the cost-of-living crisis impacted the discourse on climate change and net zero?

    Cost of Living

    Climate Activism

    Recent years have seen a rapid rise in new climate change protest groups. How have these protests been received? And how do people perceive climate protesters?

    Climate Activism

    Renewables

    Public opinion on renewables – including local developments – is as positive as ever. MPs’ opinions continues to be out of sync. But is this gap closing or widening as the roll out of green energy infrastructure accelerates?

    Renewables

    Topic threads

    From net zero to renewables, track the evolution of UK opinion through the timelines on our topic threads, dig into the data, or read regularly updated summaries.

  • Climate Barometer Tracker 30th May 2024

    Tracker data: How is support for phasing out petrol and diesel vehicles changing?

    Climate Barometer tracker data shows only slight changes in support and opposition for phasing out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.

    Overall public support remains stable, if slightly on the downward trend. There appears to rising opposition, especially among Conservative voters.

    Despite the attention drawn to the policy by Rishi Sunak’s speech in September 2023, there were no obvious subsequent changes in public sentiment. However, among Conservative voters, there is more opposition than support and opposition has grown by around 10% over the period of a year. Support remains higher than opposition among Labour voters.

    Opinion trackers

    Understand what the UK public and political leaders think about climate change. From global leadership to onshore wind, our unique tracker allows you to see how public and MP opinion is changing over time.

  • Commentary

    Our analyses offer a data-driven perspective on opinion insights as events unfold.

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