In May the DTI published Renewable Energy Attitudes and Awareness Research which examines people's awareness of and attitudes to renewable energy. Generally awareness of renewables tends to be high (although there is less awareness of options such as biomass. Most people are in favour of renewable energy This said only a third of respondents said they would be happy to live within 5km of a wind farm

Defra has published a number of studies resulting from its 2005-2006 cross-cutting research programme on Pro-Environmental Behaviour Change. Several studies were commissioned as part of this programme, each with a remit to explore a particular aspect of pro-environmental behaviour change. A summary of the main study under taken by the University of Westminster and entitled Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Existing Evidence to Inform Better Policy Making can be downloaded as can a number of supplementary papers.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have published a map in the journal Nature (Nature 438, 310-317 (17 November 2005) Impact of regional climate change on human health, Patz JA, Campbell-Lendrum D, Hollowa T and Foley, JA) showing that the worst effects of climate change will be felt in the poorest and least polluting countries. The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 150,000 lives annually.