Around 39 percent of respondents worldwide stated in 2024 that they believe the economic cost of climate change will be larger than the cost of measures to reduce it. This percentage decreased in respondents of countries member of the G-7 group, where only 36 percent of them stated the same.
Share of respondents who believe that the economic cost of climate change itself will be larger than the cost of measures to reduce it in 2024, by region
Original question phrased as: "What do you think will be greater, the economic costs of measures to reduce climate change, or the economic costs of climate change itself, or do you think there will be little difference?"
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