Abstract
The theme of global sustainable development has changed from environmental management to climate governance, and relevant policies on climate governance urgently need to be implemented by the public. The public understanding of climate change has become the prerequisite and basis for implementing various climate change policies. In order to explore the affected factors of climate change perception among Chinese residents, this study was conducted across 31 provinces and regions of China through field household surveys and interviews. Combined with the residents’ perception of climate change with the possible affected factors, the related factors affecting Chinese residents’ perception of climate change were explored. The results show that the perceptive level of climate change of Chinese residents is related to the education level and the household size of residents. Improving public awareness of climate change risk in the context of climate change through multiple channels will also help to improve residents’ awareness of climate change. On the premise of improving the level of national education, improving education on climate change in school education and raising awareness of climate change risk among dependents will help to improve the level of Chinese residents’ awareness of climate change, which could be instrumental in promoting public participation in climate change mitigation and adaptation actions.
Highlights
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published Climate Change Assessment Reports five times, comprehensively explaining the scientific evidence and attributions of climate change, the impact and risk, mitigation and adaptation, and policy and negotiation
A scientific understanding of climate change within the public plays an important role in implementing mitigation and adaptation actions
The perceptions of local people towards climate change are important, as they largely determined the ways local people respond to the impacts of climate change
Summary
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published Climate Change Assessment Reports five times, comprehensively explaining the scientific evidence and attributions of climate change, the impact and risk, mitigation and adaptation, and policy and negotiation. A scientific understanding of climate change within the public plays an important role in implementing mitigation and adaptation actions. Similar research has demonstrated that variables related to the socio-economy, the production system, and the social capital of the respondents can affect their understanding of climate change [17], indicating that understanding the public’s perception of climate change and its influencing factors is a prerequisite for the formulation of climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. This study takes the status of perception of climate change of Chinese residents as its research object in order to explore influencing factors for the public’s perception of climate change that can provide theoretical references for the formulation of climate change policies and promotion of public awareness
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