The U.N expert also explains that more extreme weather, higher temperatures, floods, droughts and rising sea levels linked to climate change are threatening people’s access to food over the long term.
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As many as 600 million more people in communities around the globe risk facing a decrease in food security and an increase in hunger as climate change worsens, according to the United Nations.
The poll was conducted in person and by telephone with 45,435 people from March through May.
The report also revealed that more than half of those surveyed globally believed that fighting climate change would also require lifestyle changes. The release is timely as it comes weeks before global leaders convene at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) United Nations climate talks in Paris later this month.
Ahead of the Paris climate change summit, India today said technology must provided to all countries without barriers even as it blamed the “historical cumulative” emissions of the last 150 years for the rise in global temperature at present.
Just 18 percent of those surveyed in China said climate change is a very serious problem, and 15 percent were very concerned that climate change would harm them personally, according to the Pew Research Center.
Despite their lack of concern about climate change, when asked which domestic issues they found most problematic, Chinese participants consistently named air pollution near the top. It is India’s vision and now the corporate vision is part of it. Once the needed technological cooperation is in place, the INDCs can be undoubtedly achieved”, he said while addressing a national seminar on “Delhi to Paris: “Corporate Vision on Climate Change”, organised by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) here.
When a climate change influence is not found it could mean two things.
The report indicates that the submitted INDCs-from countries representing more than 86 percent of global emissions-will not be enough to avoid the worst impacts of warming alone, but they provide a significant foundation to build on. Global warming for Argentina is likely to reduce crop yields and reduce water availability and by 2030, the energy, agriculture and cattle-ranching sectors will account for more than 87 percent of the country’s total emissions. And that could get the world 64 to 68 percent of the way towards a two degrees pathway compared to baseline emissions in 2030.
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Narain said that CSE’s recent publication – Capitan America – US Climate Goals: A reckoning -had received little attention from the northern (western) media. Across the nations polled, a median of 54% agree with the statement “Rich countries, such as the USA, Japan and Germany, should do more than developing countries because they have produced most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions so far”.
