Most important environmental issues in Belgium 2019
Believers in climate change
An earlier survey by the same source asked Belgian respondents whether they believe in climate change. The share of respondents who said that they believe the world’s climate is changing was considerably higher than those who considered it among the most important environmental issues in the 2019 survey. In 2018, nearly four out of five respondents stated to believe in climate change. Only ten percent said they did not think the world climate was changing.
Causes of climate change
The same survey asked respondents who or what they believe to be the cause of climate change. The largest share of participants stated they believe it is partly a natural process and partly caused by humans (36 percent). Nearly as many people though believed that humans were the cause of global warming, at 34 percent.