Climate change: a concern that is losing importance in the EU

According to the Eurobarometer 2025 survey, while 85% of EU citizens think climate change is a serious problem, only 9% rank it among the most pressing challenges.

Public support for combating climate change can only be sustained if environmental goals are aligned with economic and social realities

This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2025/10.

Standard Eurobarometer data reveal that Europeans worry much more about economic difficulties, inflation, housing, migration and geopolitical crises. A spring survey of young people conducted by the MCC Youth Research Institute has found: although 70% of 15-39 year-olds consider climate change to be important, 63% wouldn’t accept it if the fight against climate change meant higher living costs, and only 32% percent would be willing to make financial sacrifices for it.