Data for: Different countries, common support for climate change mitigation. The case of Germany and Poland.

Results of the study: Different countries, common support for climate change mitigation. The case of Germany and Poland.
While research on the public acceptance of climate change mitigation has increased, there are still few studies assessing a wider range of potential determinants of support and bringing together data from more than one country. This study was carried out in Germany and Poland (which differ significantly in their approach to climate policy), and that it covered a wide range of variables potentially influencing climate policy support, measured by contingent valuation. The results show that despite many differences between the countries evaluated, the approach to climate policy is similar. In both countries, over 90% of people accept additional costs of climate change mitigation measures. For these two countries, awareness and emotional response to climate crisis, sense of control over the situation and belief in effectiveness of solutions were valid predictors of the level of support. Factor analysis has identified five components with similar structures in both Germany and Poland, indicating that the main dimensions of attitudes to climate change are convergent. Of the three assessed climate policies, the development of renewable energy has the greatest support, the improvement of energy efficiency has moderate and the introduction of a carbon tax has the least support.

研究结果：各国普遍支持气候变化减缓举措——以德国与波兰为例。尽管针对公众对气候变化减缓举措接受度的研究数量有所增长，但仍鲜有研究评估更广泛的支持度潜在决定因素，且整合多国数据开展相关分析。本研究以气候政策路径差异显著的德国与波兰为研究对象，通过条件估值法（contingent valuation）对一系列可能影响气候政策支持度的变量进行了测量。研究结果显示，尽管两国存在诸多差异，但民众在气候政策认知上具有相似性：两国均有超过90%的民众认可气候变化减缓举措带来的额外成本。对于这两个国家而言，对气候危机的认知与情绪反应、对局势的掌控感以及对解决方案有效性的信念，均是支撑支持度水平的有效预测因子。因子分析在德国与波兰两国中均识别出结构相似的五个维度，表明民众对气候变化的态度核心维度具有趋同性。在三项被评估的气候政策中，可再生能源发展获得的支持度最高，能效提升的支持度处于中等水平，而碳税的推行则获得的支持度最低。