It remains unclear how COVID-19 has affected public engagement with the climate crisis. According to the finite-pool-of-worry hypothesis, concern about climate change should have decreased after the pandemic, in turn reducing climate-policy acceptance. Here we test these and several other conjectures by using survey data from 1172 Spanish participants who responded before and after the first wave of COVID-19, allowing for both aggregate and within-person analyses. We find that on average climate concern has decreased, while acceptance of most climate policies has increased. At the individual-level, adverse health experiences are unrelated to these changes. The same holds for negative economic experiences, with the exception that unemployment is associated with reduced acceptance of some policies. Complementary to the finite-pool-of-worry test, we examine three additional pandemic-related issues. As we find, (1) higher climate concern and policy acceptance are associated with a belief that climate change contributed to the COVID-19 outbreak; (2) higher policy acceptance is associated with a positive opinion about how the government addressed the COVID-19 crisis; (3) citizens show favorable attitudes to a carbon tax with revenues used to compensate COVID-19-related expenditures. Overall, we conclude there is support for addressing the global climate crisis even during a global health crisis.

目前尚不清楚 COVID-19 如何影响公众对气候危机的参与。根据有限担忧池假说，在大流行之后，对气候变化的担忧应该会减少，从而降低气候政策的接受度。在这里，我们使用 1172 名西班牙参与者在第一波 COVID-19 之前和之后做出回应的调查数据来检验这些和其他几个猜想，同时允许进行汇总分析和个人内部分析。我们发现，平均而言，气候问题有所减少，而大多数气候政策的接受度有所提高。在个人层面，不利的健康经历与这些变化无关。这同样适用于负面的经济经历，但失业与某些政策的接受度降低有关。作为有限担忧测试的补充，我们研究了另外三个与流行病相关的问题。正如我们发现的那样，(1) 更高的气候关注度和政策接受度与气候变化导致 COVID-19 爆发的信念有关；(2) 更高的政策接受度与对政府如何应对 COVID-19 危机的积极看法相关；(3) 公民对碳税表现出有利的态度，其收入用于补偿与 COVID-19 相关的支出。总的来说，我们得出结论，即使在全球健康危机期间，也有人支持解决全球气候危机。(2) 更高的政策接受度与对政府如何应对 COVID-19 危机的积极看法相关；(3) 公民对碳税表现出有利的态度，其收入用于补偿与 COVID-19 相关的支出。总的来说，我们得出结论，即使在全球健康危机期间，也有人支持解决全球气候危机。(2) 更高的政策接受度与对政府如何应对 COVID-19 危机的积极看法相关；(3) 公民对碳税表现出有利的态度，其收入用于补偿与 COVID-19 相关的支出。总的来说，我们得出结论，即使在全球健康危机期间，也有人支持解决全球气候危机。