The notion of a broad green backlash is set to dominate this year's EU election campaign might not be true, as new survey data from more than 15.000 respondents in Germany, France and Poland, shows that it could be overestimated.

According to the research from University of Oxford, the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School and Humboldt University, the majority of voters still wish for a more ambitious climate policy and would support a raft of concrete measures to bring down emissions.

However, supporting pivotal voters in the middle will require a stronger focus on green investment and industrial policy and offsetting measures for effective but unpopular policies like carbon pricing.

The research concludes that EU parties should not waste the coming months outbidding each other over how to cater to climate fatigue but compete over concrete solutions to green the economy.

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