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4 In 5 People Want More Climate Action, UN Global Survey Finds

23 Jun 2024 | Abstracted from ENCA

"The survey by the UN Development Program, Oxford University and GeoPoll posed 15 questions by randomized telephone calls to people in 77 countries representing 87 percent of the world's population. The key finding was that 80 percent of respondents want their governments to increase efforts to fight against global warming...Poorer countries beat this drum the loudest, with 89 percent...A majority of respondents in 62 of the 77 countries surveyed said they supported a quick transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy."

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