- 75% of Spaniards consider themselves to be informed about climate change, indicating the fundamental role of the media as a channel for disseminating information on this issue.
- Nine out of ten respondents consider that renewable energy consumption in the industrial sector is the measure that contributes most to sustainability.
- More than half of Spanish society (58%) is willing to pay more for a sustainable product, prioritising automotive and food over clothing and tourism.
The study “Spain and climate change: habits, challenges and opportunities” promoted by ENGIE Spain and conducted by GAD3 on a sample of 3600 surveys throughout Spain indicates that Spanish society is increasingly aware of the challenge of climate change, while companies and administrations still have a long way to go to achieve the full ecological transformation in our country
This Friday, Narciso Michavila, president of GAD3, took part in the presentation of the study at the “Engie Green Friday” event on the occasion of World Environment Day. In his opinion, “if climate change is a collective threat, we can only get out of it with a collective conscience”. He adds that the decision-maker’s obligation is to place truthful information and treat the citizen as an adult because “that way they will behave like an adult”.
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You can find further details of the survey at the following link: ENGIE SPAIN
Fact sheet
Universe: general population over 18 years of age.
Scope: national (Spain).
Quotas: sex, age group and habitat size, according to the distribution of the target population (INE).
Data collection procedure: computer-assisted online interview (CAWI).
Sample size: 3,603 interviews
Area Interviews Andalucía 424 Aragón 259 Asturias y Cantabria 251 Baleares y Canarias 99 C. Valenciana y Murcia 395 Castilla- La Mancha y Extremadura 204 Castilla y León 206 Cataluña 471 Galicia 503 Madrid 531 PV, Navarra y LR 260 Total 3.603
Sampling error: +-1.7% (n=3,603) for a confidence level of 95.5% (two sigmas) and under the worst-case scenario of P=Q=0.5 in the simple random sampling assumption.
Interview length: approximately 5 minutes.
Fieldwork dates: 4 to 14 May 2021.