Climate change concerns much higher in Latin America, Caribbean than U.S., Canada

More than eight in 10 adults in Mexico and Central America believe climate change is a very serious problem for their country, more than twice the proportion of adults in the United States and Canada, according to a newaccording to a new “Insights” report from Vanderbilt’s Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) titled “Education and Risk Assessments Predict Climate Change Concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Elizabeth Zechmeister, LAPOP’s director and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science, and graduate student Claire Evans wrote the report.