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Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Support for Climate Policies in Asia: Evidence from Recent Polls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2011

So Young Kim
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Abstract

Climate change has become a focal point in recent environmental debates and policymaking. Latest polls show rising consensus among the global public on the urgency of the problem. Home to the fastest growing economies as well as to four of the ten largest greenhouse gas emitters, Asia holds key to successful global coordination on climate change policy. This essay draws a contour of Asian public opinion on climate change issues based on multiple cross-national polls. While generally aware of climate change and seriously concerned about its effects, Asians turn out to be the least willing to bear the costs of climate change mitigation as compared to the residents of other regions of the world. This portends a great hurdle to devising and implementing proactive policies to address the challenges of climate change in the region.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , May 2011 , pp. 319 - 331
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011

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