International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2022

Provided by: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication |Published on: January 9, 2023

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Synopsis

This 26-page report summarizes the findings of a global study investigating people's attitudes, perceptions, behavior, and knowledge about climate change topics.
The report details the study, methods, and results of the social media survey.

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Subjects: Social Studies

Authors: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

The report is straightforward in presenting findings and conclusions, making it a great introduction to scientific writing, research design, and conducting surveys.
Each finding presented is followed by a chart with the data collected from each country.

Prerequisites

The more detailed findings are presented after page 5.
Students should know how to read bar charts and understand proportions.

Differentiation & Implementation

Before reading the report, ask students, "What do you think people's perceptions and attitudes toward climate change and climate policy are?" or "How would you go about determining this if you were a researcher?"
This report can also be used in math, science, and statistics classes during lessons about sampling, sample sizes, data collection, normal distributions, graphing data, and data analysis.
In more advanced classes, students can design their own study, surveying their friends and family to answer similar questions to those presented in the report.
As an extension, have students conduct their own analysis of the data as a whole instead of by country and then draw their own conclusions from the data.

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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication conducts scientific research on public opinion and behavior. They also engage the public in climate change science and solutions, in partnerships with governments, media, companies, and civil society.

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