Environment

Reaching the middle ground with insights from Ipsos’ ESG segmentation continuum.

After the tenth consecutive monthly heat record, apathy reins in the fight against climate change, especially among young men.

Strong majorities across 32 countries agree with a range of bans on plastics and byproducts, while there’s slightly lower support for putting more onus on governments and manufacturers.

Recent years have seen organisations around the word coming under increasing pressure to do business more sustainably. ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) considerations are now a key part of many companies’ strategies and roadmaps.

However, people expect climate change to worsen in 2024, the Ipsos Predictions survey finds

And six in ten say their government is not working hard enough to tackle climate change.

In five points, we uncover opinions on everything from anxiety about severe weather to who bears responsibility for fixing ‘global boiling.

A new global Ipsos survey of 21,231 adults reveals that, on average across 29 countries, just under a third (31%) of people agree that their government has a clear plan in place for how government, businesses and people are going to work together to tackle climate change. Agreement has fallen since last year by an average of 8 percentage points across the 26 countries surveyed both in 2022 and this year.

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