Report · Jan 30, 2025
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2024
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Teresa Myers, Marija Verner, Jennifer Marlon, Matthew Goldberg, Joshua Ettinger, Julia Fine and Kathryn Thier
Filed under: Policy & Politics
7. Who Should Take Action to Address Global Warming?
7.1 Majorities of registered voters want corporations and industry, government, and citizens to do more to address global warming.
About seven in ten registered voters say corporations and industry should do either “much more” or “more” to address global warming (69% of registered voters, including 95% of liberal Democrats, 91% of moderate/conservative Democrats, 50% of liberal/moderate Republicans, and 34% of conservative Republicans).
Half or more registered voters, including majorities of both liberal and moderate/conservative Democrats, say President-elect [now President] Trump (61%), the Republican Party (61%), citizens themselves (60%), the U.S. Congress (59%), local government officials (55%), their governor (54%), the Democratic Party (52%), and the media (51%) should do more. Forty-six percent of registered voters think they themselves should do more to address global warming.
Thirty-seven percent of liberal/moderate Republicans say their party (the Republican Party) should do more to address global warming, while only 21% of conservative Republicans say so. Large majorities of both liberal Democrats (83%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (75%) say their party (the Democratic Party) should do more.
