Opinion Today
November 28, 2023
EIB Climate Survey: A call for climate accountability European Investment Bank Climate change impacts and environmental degradation top the list of perceived challenges in India and China, while they are a close second to the cost of living in the European Union, the United States and Japan. Survey respondents recognise that the financial cost of the green transition is likely to affect personal budgets — especially those of lower-income households — and endorse policies that take social and economic inequalities into account to address the climate emergency.
EIB Climate Survey: Most Americans believe climate change can only be tackled if inequalities are addressed at the same time European Investment Bank After another challenging year marked by record heatwaves and droughts, Americans have become more acutely aware of the profound impact of climate change and the need for immediate action in the United States and around the world. With income inequalities ranked as one of the top ten challenges for the country by respondents, most Americans are calling for fair policies to address the climate emergency. U.S.-Germany Relationship Remains Solid, but Underlying Policy Differences Begin to Show Pew Research Center Findings from the seventh joint survey between Pew Research Center and Körber-Stiftung demonstrate that Americans and Germans see the relationship between their countries in a positive light, even as major world events test the limits of the trans-Atlantic alliance.
Ipsos Global Inflation Monitor: People still feeling the pinch, fed up with ‘shrinkflation’ as 2023 wraps up Jamie Stinson & Melissa Dunne, Ipsos The latest wave of the Ipsos Global Inflation Monitor finds people across 33 countries will have more money to spend in the next year as red-hot prices cool off slightly in many places; and almost half of the global public are seeing red over products getting smaller but prices staying the same. How people around the world view same-sex marriage Pew Research Center Attitudes about same-sex marriage vary widely around the world, according to several Pew Research Center surveys fielded in 32 places in the last two years. Among the surveyed publics, support for legal same-sex marriage is highest in Sweden, where 92% of adults favor it, and lowest in Nigeria, where only 2% back it. U.S. Governor Approval Cameron Easley, Morning Consult Phil Scott, of Vermont, remains America's most popular governor by a substantial margin.
