Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the environment beat infectious diseases on the list of priorities expressed in a pan-European youth survey. Despite years of populist scaremongering, migration comes close to the bottom of young people’s concerns

Poll – conducted by the renowned public opinion research agency IPSOS on behalf of the EEB and its partners in the Climate of Change project – canvassed more than 22,000 people aged 15-35 in 23 European countries. It gauged young people’s understanding of and attitudes towards climate change, migration and the current economic model.

This confirms that the worries of the activists in the youth climate movement are mainstream, not fringe, concerns for young people. This suggests that, despite the immediate corona crisis and populist rhetoric, young people are generally clear sighted about the long-term challenges facing humanity.

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