Canadian Public Opinion About Climate Change 2013

Where does the Canadian public stand today on the issue of climate change? Have Canadians lost interest or do they remain concerned and want strong actions to address the problem? The Environics Institute for Survey Research partnered with the David Suzuki Foundation to take a new sounding of public opinion on climate change, as part of its ongoing Focus Canada public opinion research program. Focus Canada is the country’s longest-running national public opinion research program, and is now a public interest initiative providing credible, independent and sustained insight into Canadian public opinion on important issues facing the country.

Survey Details

The survey included questions that serve as key indicators of public opinion about various aspects of climate change. These questions originated with an ongoing syndicated study (The Canadian Environmental Barometer) that has been conducted by the Environics Research Group since 2007. Environics Research has made the trend data for these questions available for purposes of comparing the current findings with those from previous years dating back to 2007 (when climate change had a major presence on the national and international agenda).

Partners

The Environics Institute for Survey Research partnered with the David Suzuki Foundation for this survey.

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A research report titled “Canadian Public Opinion About Climate Change 2013” from The Environics Institute and David Suzuki Foundation, featuring introductory text, background, and climate issues, with a blue header and black body text.

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2015 Canadian Public Opinion on Climate Change

As part of its ongoing Focus Canada public opinion research program, the Environics Institute partnered with the David Suzuki Foundation to ask Canadians about climate change, to determine how perceptions have changed (or not) over the past year or so.

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