Support for climate action: Global data explorer

April 2024

In 2023, Potential Energy, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and The Meliore Foundation and Zero Ideas conducted research with 58,000 people across 23 countries to learn what moves and motivates people to support climate actions and specific pro-climate policies, across the G20 and beyond.

Here you can explore this data interactively, country by country. Scroll past the chart for more context on the tool, the data and the research.

This is an interactive presentation of the research data behind our joint research report Later is Too Late, one of the broadest and most comprehensive global message testing studies ever conducted.

Please select the Home tab to choose what to see and to read the resulting chart. The About tab tells you more about the research and what you can see. The Methodology tab gives details of the research design and the technical details of what you are looking at.

First, choose the country (or countries) you want to see. Then choose how you want the results cut: by people’s age, education, gender, politics, or where they live. Then choose the research results you want to see, and the specific chart within those results. For example, you can see the overall level of support for government action on climate change, specific support for 18 individual policy territories each pitched head-to-head against an opposing policy position, or the underlying principles and beliefs that people hold that is driving their support.

To see the data behind any chart, right-click the chart and select ‘Show as a table’.

Please note that, because of the complexity of the data presented on some charts, this tool has been designed for computer screens; there is no mobile format.

This tool was first published in April 2024 by Potential Energy Coalition, and is mirrored here with kind permission.