Climate Change Sentiment in G7 Countries

This bar chart shows sentiment toward climate change in G7 countries. The data for each country is broken into two categories: the share of the population that believes climate change is a serious threat to humanity and the share that supports political action on climate change.

At a glance, we can see that a significant share of people in the G7 believe that climate change is a serious threat, though interesting trends are present, such as:

• Japan has the lowest support for political climate action in the world (59%), despite many reporting concern (79%).
• Italy has the highest concern about climate change in the G7 (91%), and the U.S. has the lowest (77%).
• Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the U.S. are all below the world average in climate change concern.