6. November 2024 | Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, Seminar für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Research

PACE: Study participants want more climate protection

The Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the University of Erfurt has just published the results of the latest data collection from the PACE study. PACE stands for "Planetary Health Action Survey" and takes a psychological look at climate change, focusing in particular on people's willingness to take action on climate protection. The researchers involved look at what is already being done in terms of climate protection; which measures people are in favour of and why; and they also look at whether and how the people surveyed perceive climate change as a health risk.

For example, the latest survey from the end of October shows, among other things, that the perception of health risks due to the climate crisis fluctuates only slightly despite the recent extreme weather events. Almost one in three respondents stated that they had been directly affected by past flood events and/or that these events had influenced important life decisions. Respondents want significantly more climate protection from the party they would vote for in the upcoming federal election (so-called "Sunday question"). They also want more climate protection – both from the current and the future federal government – than they currently perceive from the “traffic light coalition”.

Read the summary of the latest results here: https://projekte.uni-erfurt.de/pace/summary/24/.

The results of all previous surveys can be found on the PACE website at www.pace-studie.de.