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Greta Thunberg s generation most likely to believe climate change is a crisis: poll THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Updated : Jan 27, 2021, 9:01 pm IST 70% of people under 18 believe climate change is a global emergency versus 58% of those over 60 Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg (Image Source: AFP) GENEVA: Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg’s generation cares more about the climate than her parents’ and grandparents’, the biggest survey ever on global warming found, confirming what many people already suspected. Released on Wednesday, the poll organised by Oxford University and the United Nations used pop-up surveys on online games like Angry Birds to solicit answers from hard-to-reach groups including those too young to vote. The survey included responses from more than 1.2 million people in 50 countries, the largest survey ever on climate change. Among the findings of the “People’s Climate Vote” survey was that close ....
Date Time A newly released report by UNDP confirms that education is key to addressing climate change Geneva, Switzerland – The largest ever opinion survey on climate change was carried out by UN CC:Learn partner UNDP in 2020 and showed that 64% of 1.2 million respondents think that climate change is a global emergency. The survey entitled “People’s Climate Vote” covered 50 countries, reflecting a bit more than half of the world’s population, and its results were analyzed by the University of Oxford. Over 500,000 respondents of the survey were under the age of 18 at the time of the poll, which made youth the biggest age group surveyed. ....
“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.” ....
UN poll: Most see climate change as global emergency during pandemic Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C) fronts a Fridays For Future protest at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm in September. Photo: Jonathan Nacksrtrand/AFP via Getty Images 64% of people from around the world say climate change is a global emergency, a UN poll published Wednesday finds. Why it matters: It s the biggest global survey on climate change ever conducted, with some 1.2 million participants from 50 countries including the U.S., where 65% of those surveyed view climate change as an emergency. The poll also shows there s widespread support for renewable energy, even in countries where fossil fuels are a major source of emissions with 65% in favor in the U.S., 76% in Australia and 51% in Russia. ....
NEW YORK: The world’s largest survey of opinions on climate change, which sought the views of 1.2 million people in 50 countries, found that the majority believe it is a global emergency that requires urgent action. The poll, dubbed the “People’s Climate Vote,” was carried out by the UN Development Program (UNDP) in partnership with the University of Oxford. It sought the ....