Environment

Ofgem recently commissioned Ipsos conduct their Consumer First Research Panel. Each wave of the panel will consist of 6 workshops with c.18 panellists at each event, recruited to reflect a cross-section of GB energy customers. The panel will be reconvened again in early March.

Two out of three people (66%) say that scientists' views on climate change are the ones they would trust the most, according to Ipsos research commissioned by Climate Week.

In 2007, Ofgem launched its Consumer First initiative to ensure that it properly understands a broad range of consumer perspectives when making policy decisions. As part of Consumer First, it commissions primary research/engagement with consumers, interrogates and learns from research conducted by other organisations and looks to measure the impact of its activities on all consumers.

The latest face-to-face survey of the British public by Ipsos shows that public support for nuclear energy has bounced back strongly since its June 2011 low point in the wake of the Fukushima incident in Japan in March.

Long Term Trends: Environment

Half of GB adults have heard and understood the messages about recycling their waste, however the wider and arguably more important changes in behaviour which would impact the environment positively remain less well understood.

An Ipsos survey for the Nuclear Industry Association shows continued support among the British public for an energy policy that includes nuclear energy as well as renewables.

New research by Ipsos shows that three in five global citizens (62%) oppose the use of nuclear energy - a quarter (26%) of those have been influenced by the recent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

Energy security is the leading environmental issue for Britons, over and above climate change, according to a new international Ipsos poll of working age adults.