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Climate change awareness, risk perception and policy support vary between and within countries. National-scale comparisons can help to explain this variability and be used to develop targeted interventions.

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Hopkins, D. Country comparisons. Nature Clim Change 5, 975–976 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2730

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