Citizens demand economic action on climate adaptation
A new survey of 18,245 people in 18 countries across six continents into public attitudes on climate adaptation finds that citizens expect climate to impact their cost of living and their livelihoods.
Ways into the findings
Published by Morphosis with VibeFund and support from the Climate Opinion Research Exchange · fieldwork by Norstat, 22 July – 10 August 2026
Country profiles
Pick a country to see how its public answered the survey’s headline questions, and how that sits against the eighteen-country average. Two grouped views are included for the EU and G20 countries surveyed.
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How countries compare
Choose a finding and see how all 18 countries answered it, ranked from highest to lowest. This is a selected set of the survey’s questions, not all of them.
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Methodology
The survey
18,245 adults were interviewed online across 18 countries between 22 July and 10 August 2026, with a nationally representative sample of roughly 1,000 in each country. Results are weighted within each country to national population profiles for age, gender and region. Percentages include those who answered “don’t know” in the base, so shares for a single question sum to 100.
How the averages work
The eighteen-country average, and the EU and G20 figures, are unweighted means of the national results: each country counts once, so Poland carries the same weight as India. They describe the publics surveyed, not a world population.
The EU and G20 groups
European Union. France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain — five of the twenty-seven member states. They cover roughly two-thirds of the EU population and its four largest economies, but no Nordic, Baltic or Benelux country is included, so these figures describe the five publics surveyed rather than the EU as a whole.
G20. Fifteen sovereign G20 members were surveyed, plus Spain, which attends as a permanent guest. Canada, Japan, Russia and South Korea were not surveyed. These figures describe the sixteen publics surveyed rather than the G20 as a whole.
Coverage in the Adaptation Economy Index
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Publication and data access
The survey data itself is not published. Morphosis holds the dataset and does not release respondent-level records: the file carries sub-national location, exact age, response timestamps and, in sixteen countries, party affiliation.
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