{"id":12030,"date":"2021-01-27T08:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T05:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12030"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:24","slug":"un-global-climate-poll-peoples-voice-is-clear-they-want-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/01\/27\/un-global-climate-poll-peoples-voice-is-clear-they-want-action\/","title":{"rendered":"UN global climate poll: \u2018People\u2019s voice is clear \u2013 they want action\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The biggest ever opinion poll on climate change has found two-thirds of people think it is a \u201cglobal emergency\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey shows people across the world support climate action and gives politicians a clear mandate to take the major action needed, according to the UN organisation that carried out the poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/librarypage\/climate-and-disaster-resilience-\/The-Peoples-Climate-Vote-Results.html\">UN Development Programme (UNDP)<\/a>&nbsp;questioned 1.2 million people in 50 countries, many of them young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While younger people showed the greatest concern, with 69% of those aged 14-18 saying there is a climate emergency, 58% of those over 60 agreed, suggesting there is not a huge generational divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even when climate action required significant changes in their own country, majorities still backed the measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In nations where fossil fuels are a major source of emissions, people strongly supported renewable energy, including the US (65% in favour), Australia (76%) and Russia (51%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where the destruction of forests is a big cause of emissions, people supported conservation of trees, with 60% support in Brazil and 57% in\u00a0Indonesia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jan\/27\/un-global-climate-poll-peoples-voice-is-clear-they-want-action\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest ever opinion poll on climate change has found two-thirds of people think it is a \u201cglobal emergency\u201d. The survey shows people across the world support climate action and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}