A Destin Commun study published on 10 November found that worsening global warming and extreme weather ranked first among perceived external threats to France’s security over the next five years. Forty percent of respondents selected that option, ahead of religious or identity-based terrorism at 38%, a global economic crisis at 35%, and armed conflict in Europe at 34%.
The ranking does not erase other concerns. France 24 reported that 75% of those surveyed said they were worried about war in Europe, including 30% who were very worried. Stewart Chau, Destin Commun’s deputy director general, said the heatwaves, drought conditions and fires of summer 2026 had made climate risk feel more immediate for many French people.
The survey’s political significance is that climate risk now sits inside respondents’ sense of security alongside threats usually handled in separate debates. That is an editorial reading rather than a measured finding of the survey: public policy would be stronger if climate preparedness were connected more clearly to health, the economy and territorial planning.
The study drew on a survey of 4,000 people and six discussion groups held in August. The supplied reporting does not provide its sampling method or margin of error. It records a hierarchy of concerns at a particular point in time; it does not establish a public-policy mandate or forecast the 2027 presidential election.
After the summer of 2026, climate risk appears to have gained a more central place in France’s public-security debate. The significance of the result is not an electoral prediction, but that this survey placed worsening warming and extreme weather ahead of terrorism, a global economic crisis and armed conflict in Europe.
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- France 24 Tous titres · Source date: 2026-11-10
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