UK perceptions of climate change and lifestyle change: results from CAST’s wave 1 survey on public perceptions of climate change and the four areas of diet, transport, heating and consumption

Key Points:
* People's concern about climate change remains high.
• Most people support efforts to reduce air travel and overall material consumption, but express less support for efforts to reduce meat consumption.
• People are willing to consider changes to their own lifestyles relating to diet, transport, heating and material consumption.
• There is strong support for citizens' opinions to directly feed into political decisions about climate change, e.g. through citizens' assemblies.
• People underestimate the role of greenhouse gas emissions from food and material consumption.
• We identified some widespread beliefs that could be barriers to lifestyle changes, such as positive emotions associated with consumption of products and meat.