Report · Mar 26, 2024
International Public Opinion on Climate Change: Extreme Weather and Vulnerability, 2023
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Marija Verner, Emily Goddard, Emily Wood, Jennifer Carman, Leah Ndumi Kioko, Natalia Ordaz Reynoso, Erik Thulin, Seth Rosenthal, Jennifer Marlon and Nicole Buttermore
Filed under: Climate Impacts and Beliefs & Attitudes
3. Extreme Weather Recovery and Support
3.1. Many respondents say it would take a year or more for their household to recover from an extreme weather event.
Many respondents, and majorities in eight out of 73 areas, say it would take a year or more for their household to recover from an extreme weather event. Respondents in Uzbekistan (59%), Bosnia and Herzegovina (56%), and Bulgaria (55%) are the most likely to say so. In contrast, respondents in Thailand (22%), Benin (16%), and Indonesia (15%), are the least likely to say so.
3.2. Many respondents say they have no relatives or friends who could help them in an extreme weather event.
Many respondents say they have no relatives or friends who they could count on for help if they or anyone in their household were impacted by an extreme weather event, although no area had a majority of respondents who said so. Respondents in Morocco and Lebanon (both 44%) and Pakistan (42%) are the most likely to say so. In contrast, respondents in Panama and Puerto Rico (both 12%) and Mozambique (11%) are the least likely to say so.
Support networks appear to be particularly strong in South America, where the percentages of respondents who say they have no relatives or friends who could help them if they or anyone in their household were impacted by an extreme weather event range from 20 percent in Paraguay to only 15 percent in Peru.
