Table 5 Ranking of average agreement with climate policy statements across countries

From: The public’s views on climate policies in seven large global south countries

 

Policy statement

Chile

Colombia

India

Kenya

Nigeria

South Africa

Vietnam

Combined

View 1

Most important longer-term problem

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

 

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

View 2

Only one of several

serious problems

6

5

4

4

3

4

2

5

 

−0.470***

−0.389***

−0.230***

−0.519***

−0.324***

−0.378***

−0.351***

−0.372***

View 3

Pointless for my country to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

8

8

9

8

7

8

7

8

 

−0.777***

−0.666***

−0.395***

−1.271***

−0.782***

−0.789***

−0.898***

−0.782***

View 4

Rich countries should pay to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

2

2

2

6

6

5

6

4

 

−0.052

−0.066

−0.108*

−0.814***

−0.536***

−0.470***

−0.512***

−0.357***

View 5

Corrupt big polluters continue to emit carbon dioxide

5

6

3

2

4

2

4

3

 

−0.396***

−0.438***

−0.196***

−0.471***

−0.336***

−0.0464

−0.447***

−0.327***

View 6

Too late to do anything to stop climate change

7

7

7

7

8

7

8

7

 

−0.662***

−0.474***

−0.330***

−1.230***

−0.787***

−0.784***

−0.931***

−0.728***

View 7

Waste of money spending to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

9

9

8

10

10

9

9

9

 

−0.872***

−0.770***

−0.372***

−1.388***

−0.900***

−0.928***

−1.023***

−0.879***

View 8

Scientists are working on lower cost ways of removing carbon dioxide

10

10

10

9

9

10

10

10

 

−1.106***

−1.021***

−0.496***

−1.346***

−0.892***

−0.981***

−1.029***

−0.966***

View 9

Should spend more on research and development projects

3

3

6

3

2

3

5

2

 

−0.200***

−0.221***

−0.268***

−0.504***

−0.277***

−0.341***

−0.473***

−0.322***

View 10

Older high-polluting motor vehicles replaced by clean energy sources

4

4

5

5

5

6

3

6

 

−0.379***

−0.315***

−0.241***

−0.721***

−0.485***

−0.567***

−0.367***

−0.430***

log likelihood

−99,090.16

−99,820.27

−10,172.30

−9,628.78

−9,964.17

−9,918.92

−9,886.79

−69,765.04

  1. Estimates from a rank-ordered logistic regression model. Predicted rank is shown in bold and regression coefficient immediately below. View 1, the ‘Most important longer-term problem’, is normalized to ‘0’ as the base reference policy statement. ***, ** and * indicate statistical significance levels at 1%, 5% and 10%, respectively, for a two-sided test against a zero-null hypothesis. Coefficients are comparable within columns but not across rows.
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