In Asia, India, the Philippines, and Vietnam are among the most concerned about the effects of climate change with 76 percent, 72 percent, and 69 percent of respondents respectively stating they agree that “Global climate change is a very serious problem”.
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Only 18% of Chinese citizens are seriously concerned about the issue, a drop of 23 points since 2010, the US Pew Research Center report published on Thursday shows.
In the U.S. and France, the proportion of people who say global climate change is a “very serious problem” increased over the past five years, according to the poll.
The world leaders would gather in Paris for the 21st meeting of the CoP on climate change from November 30 to December 11 to negotiate an agreement, applicable to all countries, with an aim of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Mexico’s announcement was followed shortly by Gabon’s, whose contribution to global emissions is minor but whose role as the first African nation to make a pledge is notable. They are taking action not only to address the global challenge of climate change, but also because they realize the local benefits of building resilient, low-carbon economies of the future. Americans and Chinese, whose nations are the world’s biggest emitters, were surprisingly less concerned than others.
Of those interviewed in the survey by the Yale project on Climate Change Communication, 35% of Catholics and 17% of Americans said their views on global warming had been influenced by the pontiff’s interventions.
He said the India’s INDCs were appreciated all over the world and called upon developed countries to pledge more for combating the climate change.
The report has set off alarm bells regarding the implications of climate change on the world population’s nutritional well-being.
President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Francois Hollande issued a joint statement on climate change in Beijing on Monday, vowing to promote a working program to accelerate pre-2020 efforts in mitigation, adaptation and support during the Paris climate summit.
Developing countries insist rich ones should lead the way in slashing emissions because historically they have emitted more pollution.
However, the proportion of Conservatives worrying about climate change is more than double that of US Republican supporters, just 20 per cent of whom back government action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 68 per cent of Democrats. The survey also found, unsurprisingly, that a greater effort should be made by rich countries over poorer nations to reduce Carbon dioxide emissions.
Geneva – “Climate change poses severe and distinct threats to food security, and could subject an additional 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080”, warned today the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver.
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Fears about climate change were strongest in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
