Climate Changed
French Worry More About Climate Change Than Neighbors Do
- Survey also gauged attitudes in U.K., Norway and Germany
- Presidential candidates say they back expansion of green power
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The French are more worried and outraged by climate change than their British or German neighbors, but they don’t want to pay for a solution.
That’s the conclusion of the first in-depth, large-scale survey into European attitudes on global warming. In France, 79 percent of people are worried by climate change, compared with 60 percent in the U.K. and 68 percent in Germany, according to the European Perceptions on Climate Change study published on Wednesday.