Climate policies: The swing voters that determine their fate

Climate measures currently in place are unlikely to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. Whether new policy measures can bring us closer to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees and combating climate change depends largely on public opinion and political support. Researchers from ETH Zurich, led by Keith Smith, senior researcher in Professor Thomas Bernauer’s research group, conducted a large-scale survey in 13 EU countries to determine which measures are publicly and politically acceptable, and why. Their results are published in Nature Climate Change.