The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe

Three decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality?

“…This politicization could be seen as enabling the adoption of the EGD in the first place, but it also helped ensure the commitment to the EGD as an overarching policy framework, even in the face of opposition during the multiple crises in the 2020s (Dobbs et al, 2021; Dupont et al, 2020; Dupont & Torney, 2021; Kuzemko et al, 2022). Research therefore shows that the enabling context of politicization cannot be taken for granted (Bressanelli et al, 2020; Fisher et al, 2022). The complexity of climate change, and of the expanded climate governance framework, could drive a more constraining context of politicization, if consensus‐building efforts are not rolled out (Boasson & Tatham, 2023).…”

Informing Climate Mitigation Policies: A Scoping Study Based on 64 Articles Using The 2016 European Social Survey Rotating Module

“…For example, a study finds that attitudes to fossil fuel taxation are relatively independent from the left-right political orientation in many of these countries (Sivonen, 2020). In these countries, climate change attitudes did not become as entrenched within the party system as in the West (Fisher et al, 2022), with the exception of the Czech Republic (Čermák and Potančoková, 2020).…”

Pro-environment Behavior, Climate Change Perception, Anxiety, Hope and Despair according to Political Orientation

“…To achieve this aim, several specific aims were established: (a) to validate all the scales for the Portuguese population; (b) to assess whether the factor structure of the scales were valid across different political orientations through measurement invariance; (c) to evaluate their reliability; (d) to assess differences concerning age, gender, and political orientation; (e) to understand which variables explain each item of the pro-environmental behavior subscale; and (f) to evaluate the moderating role of climate change perception, despair, and hope in the relationship between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behavior. The hypotheses of this study are: (1) the study is expected to find good model adjustment of the instruments to the Portuguese population [17,35,64]; (2) the instruments are expected to be invariant in relation to political orientations [68][69][70][71]; (3) the study is expected to demonstrate the reliability and validity of the instruments used [17,35,64]; (4) the study is expected to find differences in the instruments' mean values depending on sociodemographic and political variables [15,[72][73][74][75][76][77][78]; (5) the variables of climate change anxiety, perception, hope, and despair are expected to contribute to explaining pro-environmental behaviors [17,28,[44][45][46]; (6) the variables changes in perception, despair, and hope are expected to play a moderating role in the relationship between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behavior [59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66]…”