“Recognition of the climate emergency is much more widespread than previously thought,” Stephen Fisher, a political sociologist at the University of Oxford and co-author of the report, said in a statement released Wednesday. “We’ve also found that most people clearly want a strong and wide-ranging policy response.” Fellow co-author Cassie Flynn, the strategic adviser on climate change at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), told The Guardian that “the voice of the people is clear—they want action on climate change.” Survey data were gathered from 1.2 million respondents in 50 high-, middle-, and low-income countries covering 56% of the world’s population, thanks to what the UNDP called a “new and unconventional approach to polling.”