New polling: voters see rowing back on climate policy as ‘damaging’, ‘backwards’ and ‘dangerous’

New polling conducted by Opinium for the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) [1] has found that majorities of voters would be proud of voting for a party that boosted renewables (78%) and insulation in homes (72%). Even for policies less in the public eye such as the switch to heat pumps (55%) and supporting farmers to plant trees (55%), the public said they would be proud of voting for a party championing these measures.

This compares to just 29% who said they would be proud of voting for a party supporting large-scale fracking with 48% saying they would be ‘embarrassed’ by this.

When asked how they would perceive a political party downgrading climate change policy from being a priority issue, the top responses were ‘damaging’ (38%), ‘backwards’ (36%), ‘dangerous’ (33%).