The objective of this article is to contribute, from the environmental sociology, to the debate on the relationship between public opinion and environmental policies. We show the diversity existing at social perceptions on nvironmental issues in accordance to the geographical level we take as reference (local, regional, national and global). This topic is very important both to define and implement policies aimed to mitigate the effects of climate change. The empirical analysis has carried out of the information offered by the Ecobarómetro of Andalusia, which is an annual survey made from 2001 by the IESA-CSIC. The main contribution of this article is to show how, contrary to the sustainable development agenda, the population does not connect the global dimension of the climate change to the need of implementing regional/local policies. The Andalusian people perceive that the policy aimed to mitigate the effects of climate change is a >supra policy>, and they consider that actions implemented at the regional/local level are none effects on global environmental problems.

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