Table 1 Climate justice beliefs index

1. People living in poverty suffer worse effects from climate change.

78.2

14.9

6.9

2. Around the world, people who are least responsible for causing climate change suffer the most severe climate change impacts.

71.5

19.6

8.9

3. Climate change affects women worse than men around the world.

41.2

42.0

16.8

4. Climate change will worsen existing oppressions and inequalities (for example, the gap between rich and poor countries).

71.6

19.1

9.2

5. The negative impacts of climate change are worse for Indigenous people and people of colour (for example, Black, Asian and Middle Eastern) around the world.

57.2

30.5

12.4

6. Solving climate change requires redistributing resources from the wealthy to those who have less.

67.3

22.3

10.4

7. People from communities most affected by climate change should have more of a say in decisions about solutions to climate change than they currently do.

77.6

14.7

7.7

8. Climate change is driven by exploitative systems like capitalism.

69.9

18.9

11.2

9. Colonization and historical practices of forced extraction of resources from colonized territories has played a significant role in driving climate change.

70.1

18.1

11.9

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