Climate Week 2013 survey
Ipsos polling for Climate Week was launched alongside Britain's biggest ever environmental occasion which took place between 4-10 March 2013.
Ipsos polling for Climate Week was launched alongside Britain’s biggest ever environmental occasion which took place between 4-10 March 2013. The research provides current measures on sustainable behaviour and attitudes towards climate change and other environmental issues. In this first release of findings we find that:
- Only a small minority of people throw away unwanted clothes (6%), instead typically choosing to donate them to charity (61%)
- A similarly small number throw away mobile phones when they stop using them (4%) and are far more likely to recycle or sell them (25% and 20% respectively)
- The large majority of the public (83%) will put something in a recycling bin on most days
- The majority of adults in Britain want to help prevent climate change (63%) and believe their actions can make a real difference in helping to protect the environment (56%)
- Almost half (46%) say they would sign up with a new electricity company if they could get energy that was more environmentally friendly at a comparable price
Ipsos is the Market Research Advisor to Climate Week
Technical Note
Results are based on 1,017 online interviews with people aged 16-75 in Great Britain as part of Ipsos’s online omnibus; Fieldwork took place 8th-11th February 2013; Where results do not sum to 100, this may be due to multiple responses, computer rounding, or weighting; Results are based on all respondents unless otherwise stated; Data have been weighted to the known profile of the population; and An asterisk (*) represents a value of less than one half of one per cent, but not zero.
