Climate change has become less important to young people in Germany than it was a few years ago, according to a survey.<\/p>\n
In 2025, only around four in 10 young people said the issue was very important to them, compared with around six in 10 in 2021, according to a survey carried out by the Sinus Institute for the health insurer Barmer and seen by dpa.<\/p>\n
The share of respondents who said climate change was unimportant rose from 9% in 2021 to 17% in 2025.<\/p>\n
For the study, 2,000 young people aged 14 to 17 were surveyed online across Germany between October 16 and November 20.<\/p>\n
Strong fear of climate change has also become less common among young people. In 2025, just under a third of respondents, or 31%, said they were personally very afraid of climate change, down from 39% in 2021.<\/p>\n
The proportion who said they were not afraid rose from 14% to 22%, while almost half, or 47%, described having mixed feelings, unchanged from 2021.<\/p>\n
Even if the issue appears to be losing importance among young people, the situation has not eased in any way.<\/p>\n
On the contrary, climate change is becoming increasingly visible in Europe. The continent has been warming twice as fast as the world as a whole since the 1980s, World Meteorological Organization chief Celeste Saulo said while presenting a report on the state of the climate.<\/p>\n
Europe experienced a massive decline in snow and ice cover in 2025, as well as droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and marine warming, much of it at record levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Climate change has become less important to young people in Germany than it was a few years ago,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1359,8795,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-9181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-climate-strike","10":"tag-germany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}