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Countries doing enough on climate change

16 Dec 2014

Q. As far as you know, do you think the following countries are doing enough, not enough or too much to address climate change? 

 

Doing enough

Not doing enough

Doing too much

Don’t know

Australia

26%

51%

6%

16%

USA

17%

53%

5%

25%

China

9%

63%

3%

25%

51% of respondents think Australia is not doing enough to address climate change – while 53% think the USA is not doing enough and 63% think China is not doing enough. Only 26% think that Australia is doing enough.

Those most likely to think Australia is not doing enough were aged 18-34 (57%), Greens voters (91%), Labor voters (65%) and people with university education (59%).

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