Memo: Climate Ambition is Popular

Data for Progress and Civis Analytics

  • When offered a plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 by spending versus 2050, voters prefer 2030.

  • Voters prefer a jobs guarantee over a carbon tax to fight climate change.

Civis and Data for Progress surveyed 5,229 people nationally using an online poll in August 2019. Results are weighted to a 2020 general election audience, and models are built off of self-reported political and attitudinal variables.