Climate change

A new Ipsos survey of public attitudes to the nuclear energy industry on behalf of the Nuclear Industry Association shows the industry to be favourably regarded on balance.

Research by Ipsos reveals that around six in ten (61%) of the British public lack confidence in the ability of international leaders to address the problem of climate change.

Ipsos was appointed in 2006 by the Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) to conduct a comprehensive survey of attitudes to aviation and climate change.

The Conservative conference gets under way this week in Blackpool with the environmental agenda promising to be a key test for David Cameron and his party.

Ipsos's Summer MPs survey shows a further increase in overall support for the building of replacement nuclear power stations in Britain. Support is up 11 points to 72%, while opposition is up one point to 23%. This is the second year running of rapid growth in support, last year it increased by 16 points. Three-quarters of Labour MPs (75%) now support newbuild, while 21% oppose it.

Q1 As far as you know, do you personally think the world's climate is changing, or not?

To feed into our report "Tipping Point or Turning Point?" we commissioned new research on public attitudes to climate change to see how convinced the public are about the issue, its causes and its possible solutions.

A qualitative and quantitative study Ipsos conducted on behalf of Natural England (formerly the Countryside Agency) shows that the coast plays a fundamental role in the English sense of identity. Indeed, around seven in ten English residents (72%) have visited England's coast in the past year.

Findings from an Ipsos survey commissioned by the National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (NSCA) show that noise is an issue for a substantial number of people in Britain, and a serious one for some. In all, 7 in 10 people report to be bothered by one or more sources of noise in their neighbourhood, and 12 per cent say their quality of life at home suffers a great deal or a fair amount from noise when they are at home. The most common source of annoyance is noise from cars / motorbikes, with one in five (21 per cent) reporting that they are bothered by this kind of noise in their neighbourhood.