80 percent of people globally want stronger climate action by governments according to new survey
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-20-80-percent-people-globally-want-stronger-climate-action-governments-according-new
80 percent of people globally want stronger climate action by governments according to new survey
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-20-80-percent-people-globally-want-stronger-climate-action-governments-according-new
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**Overwhelming Global Support for Stronger Climate Action: Survey Finds**
A new survey, the Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, shows that 80% of people worldwide want their governments to take stronger action against climate change. Additionally, 86% believe countries should set aside geopolitical differences to address the crisis collaboratively.
Conducted by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the University of Oxford, and GeoPoll, the survey included over 73,000 participants from 77 countries, representing 87% of the global population. It reveals broad support for more ambitious climate policies, especially in the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters like the US, China, and Germany.
Key findings include:
– **Support for Stronger Action:** Majorities in 20 of the biggest emitters support tougher climate policies, with 93% in Italy and 85% in Brazil backing stronger actions.
– **Gender Gap:** In countries like Germany and the US, women are significantly more likely than men to favor stronger climate action.
– **Fossil Fuel Phaseout:** 72% globally support a rapid transition away from fossil fuels, with high support in top oil, coal, and gas producers like Nigeria and China.
– **Climate Anxiety:** 56% of people think about climate change regularly, with 69% saying it impacts major life decisions.
UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner emphasized the unprecedented consensus revealed by the survey, urging leaders to heed public demand for bold climate action as they develop new pledges under the Paris Agreement. The survey results highlight a critical opportunity for global leaders to unite and intensify efforts to combat the climate crisis.
The full report can be read [here](https://peoplesclimate.vote/).
80% of people are selfish and don’t care about oil & gas shareholders. SELFISH!
Title error. 80% of .015% of global population want stronger climate action.
80% of the people want others to act.
But won’t lift a finger in making personal changes to help fight climate change. They will continue byuing bigger, heavier SUVs, to commute 5 km, complain (and disobey) if local council imposes a 20C limit on heating, I could go on for ever.
Look how fast the 2030 fossil fuel ban is going down the drain.
I want an ebike that doesn’t cost me the price of 3 cars
ya know, what difference does it make what is causing global warming, if we can change it, lets do it!
It’d be nice if these surveys used an actual _thing_ that the global governments & regulators could do to combat climate change as an example – mostly everyone agrees _something_ needs to be done, but when presented with options like taxing certain products more for their impact (fuel & electronics come to mind as the top two, along with stuff like palm oil, meat etc) suddenly people tend to disagree more.
It’s like what happened with energy-saving light bulbs again – everyone wants to use less electricity, but having the lights off more or getting new bulbs that cost five times what the previous ones did is suddenly a big ask. It’s like we all want change, but we don’t want to change anything ourselves.