A poll revealed support for bold climate action
When the first UN climate summit, COP1, was held in Berlin in 1991, climate change was a fringe concern. Now on the eve of COP26, most people want their elected officials to show climate leadership.
That’s according to BBC World Service opinion poll. It surveyed more than 30,000 people globally, and found that 58 per cent want their governments to take bold climate action. In 2015, the figure was 43 per cent.
Chris Coulter, the chief executive of Globescan, which carried out the poll, said: “This is an extraordinary shift in a relatively short period of time. Governments that don’t deliver on these expectations could face political consequences.”
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