In the first half of December the annual conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in Katowice. The CBOS November survey checked whether people in Poland were aware of the dangers connected with climate change.

A decided majority of those polled saw climate change as a threat, although over half (54%) saw it as only one danger among many. Fewer than a third of respondents (29%) maintained that climate change was one of the greatest threats to contemporary civilisation. Only a few believed that climate change was not dangerous at all (3%), or that it did not even exist (1%).

Since 2009 an increase has been observed in respondents who say that climate change is one of the greatest threats to civilisation. At the same time there has been a drop in the percentage of those who are of the opinion that this danger is insignificant.

More on this subject in the CBOS report.