What Australian's will do....
Today, most Australians consider themselves to be at least fairly environmentally conscious in their outlook and behaviours. In a series of national Ipsos online omnibus surveys, each with a sample of more than 1000 adults and weighted to match population demographics, the proportion of Australians who see themselves as fairly, very or extremely ‘green’ has risen significantly from 76% in May 2007, to 81% in May 2008.
But Australian’s may be losing interest in climate change.
In August 2007 Ipsos found that 62% of respondents said they had specifically taken action to reduce their greenhouse emissions; most commonly through recycling, using energy saver lights, generally using less energy, and walking or taking public transport more while reducing car usage.
The the Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute’s third annual climate change survey has found that only 46 per cent of Australians said they would take action on climate change if they were in charge of making decisions for Australia, a dip from 55 per cent last year.
