The Ranking and Rating of Climate Change in Romania: Trends and Individual-Level Determinants

The Ranking and Rating of Climate Change in Romania. Trends and Individual-Level Determinants. The analysis investigates the ranking and rating questions of climate concern with a view to reveal Romanian respondents' attitude towards the seriousness of climate change in the period of 2009-2019 based on the Special Eurobarometer research. The results show that climate change is seen in Romania as a severe but a less important problem. The multivariate analyses show that educational status represents the individual level variable that clearly determines climate concern whether it is a ranking or a rating type of measurement. It has also been demonstrated that climate-change-related concern is interlinked with other attitudes towards climate change. This points to the fact that although climate concern has a less stable socio-demographic root, it forms a coherent environment belief.