Two-thirds of Floridians Concerned About Climate Change
and Don’t Feel Government is Doing Enough to Address Impacts

FAU's Center for Environmental Studies (CES) and the Business and Economics Polling Initiative (BEPI) recently collaborated on the first-ever Florida Climate Resilience Survey . The main purpose of the survey is to gauge Floridians’ views on their preparedness and resilience to climate hazards.  

“Since the early 1990s, the climate change question at the national-level has
become increasingly polarized along party lines,” said Colin Polsky , Ph.D., director of the FAU Center for Environmental Studies and lead author of the study. “Yet in recent years a growing number of states and cities have taken meaningful actions to recognize, study, and address climate change. These actions are largely consolidated in blue-leaning states, unlike Florida, and the national-level discourse remains polarized along partisan lines.”

One take-away from the study is that a large majority of Floridians favor teaching about climate change causes, consequences, and solutions in Florida K-12 classrooms (68%).

Read more about the study results by visiting our CES-BEPI website .