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The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuous programme of cross-national collaboration running annual surveys on topics important for the social sciences. The programme started in 1984 with four founding members - Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States – and has now grown to almost 50 member countries from all over the world. As the surveys are designed for replication, they can be used for both, cross-national and cross-time comparisons. Each ISSP module focuses on a specific topic, which is repeated in regular time intervals. Please, consult the documentation for details on how the national ISSP surveys are fielded. The present study focuses on questions about the environment, climate change and environmental protection.Most important issue and next most important issue for the country; agreement with different statements (private enterprise is the best way to solve economic problems, government´s responsibility to reduce income differences between people with high incomes and those with low incomes, own country should limit the import of foreign products in order to protect its national economy, own country should limit immigration in order to protect the national way of life, international organizations are taking away too much power from the government); country’s highest and next highest priority; amount of trust in people; trust in institutions (university research centres, the news media, business and industry, parliament); extent of personal concern about environmental issues; most important environmental problem for the country as a whole (air pollution, chemicals and pesticides, water shortage, water pollution, nuclear waste, domestic waste disposal, climate change, genetically modified foods, using up our natural resources); attitude towards climate change (the world’s climate has not been changing, the world’s climate has been changing mostly due to natural processes, the world’s climate has been changing about...