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The project was born from the importance of more and more research and work that highlights the importance of the social dimension in the face of the challenges of climate change. As a consequence, the assessment of the threat and the behaviours of citizens are presented as key to guide communication, education and awareness-raising activities on climate change. Likewise, the ecological transition will require a level of consensus and social involvement that will have to be built, taking as a starting point the current public perception of climate change.

The project has developed a state-wide demoscopic study that provides many of the keys needed to guide education activities and the process of building social consensus. A study that also gives continuity to the demoscopic studies carried out by the SEPA Group in 2009, 2011 and 2012.

The main objective of the project has been to know the perception and representations of Spanish society regarding climate change and the actions and policies of response.

• After analysing the main bibliographic references in the field to design an adapted questionnaire, fieldwork has been carried out on a representative sample of Spanish society.

• The statistical treatment and analysis of the results have given rise to the report "Spanish society in the face of climate change, perception and behaviours in the population", presented at a virtual public event on 16 April 2021.

The main conclusions of the study indicate that

• 93.5% of the population considers climate change to be real.
• 76.4% of the population points to human causes as the origin of the problem, compared to the certainties of science in this regard.
• 73.3% understand that it is being given less importance than it has.
• Up to 90.1% of the people surveyed say that climate change can affect future generations "a lot" or "a lot".
• Food, according to 72.3%, and health, according to 70.9%, of the population, can be affected "a lot" or "a lot".