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Climate change less likely to be seen as an emergency in poor nations
(Reuters, 27 Jan 2021) An online UN survey, distributed through adverts in popular mobile games, shows increasingly global understanding of the climate crisis, but the highest concern is in rich nations.
People living in the poorest countries are less likely to see climate change as an emergency or think it requires urgent action, the biggest-ever survey of public opinion on the issue showed on Wednesday.
But despite regional differences, almost two-thirds of the 1.2 million people surveyed in about 50 nations agreed global warming was a crisis in the online "Peoples' Climate Vote" poll conducted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Oxford.
The creators of the game-based poll said their findings showed a clear mandate for policymakers to take stronger action for a greener world.
"There is an increasingly global understanding, and with it comes the ability to act collectively on climate change," UNDP head Achim Steiner told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Reuters, 27 Jan 2021: Climate change less likely to be seen as an emergency in poor nations
