(and why what people believe their neighbours think matters)
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This event lasts from 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
Online / The Lloyd’s Register Building, London
Panel discussion
As part of London Climate Action Week 2026, this event will launch the first 2026 World Risk Poll report - focused on global attitudes to the threat posed by climate change. In partnership with the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme, it will explore the gap between personal perceptions of climate risk and perceptions of the beliefs of others, and the implications this has for risk communication, policy, and efforts to drive effective climate action.
This is a hybrid event. Due to venue capacity limits, in-person attendance is by invitation only – please email us by clicking here if you would like to request an invite.
The event is free and open to all to join online – to do so, please register via the button.
As confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, the past three years (2023-25) have been the warmest on record. As a result, severe weather events have continued to become ever more frequent and intense, with deadly and cascading consequences.
Since 2019, the Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll has tracked people’s experience of, and worry about, these severe weather events, as well as public perception of the threat posed by climate change, in around 140 countries around the world.
The Poll data has consistently shown high levels of global concern about climate change across this period. And yet, at local, national and international levels, the world still struggles to stimulate the full level of action and investment needed to meet the challenge, with some nations even going backwards on their climate commitments. Why?
For the first time, the 2026 edition of the World Risk Poll has gone deeper, asking 140,000 people around the world not just how concerned they are about the threat of climate change to people in their country, but how concerned they believe their fellow citizens to be – data that has been collected to inform the 2026 Human Development Report from the United Nations Development Programme.
Framed by the Poll data, this event will explore whether people’s perceptions of other people’s views are out of step with reality – and if people believe their fellow citizens care less about the climate crisis than themselves, is this putting a crippling handbrake on vital climate action?
This event will:
Moderator:
Gareth Redmond-King, Head of International Programme, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit
Panellists/presenters:
- Nancy Hey OBE, Director of Evidence and Insight, Lloyd’s Register Foundation
- Yanchun Zhang, Chief Statistician, United Nations Development Programme
- Professor Robert Böhm, Professor of Psychology, University of Vienna
- Professor Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London
- Dr Andrea Taylor, Associate Professor in Risk Communication, University of Leeds
Registration and welcome refreshments
Session introduction
Presentation on World Risk Poll climate report
Panel discussion
Audience Q&A
Networking drinks
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