LONDON: In India it is increasingly worried about damage caused by people for planets and environmental concerns tend to be framed around concerns about pollution, new climate research throughout the world has been found.
Glocalites, a leading research agent, and international advocacy organizations of global residents released the findings of one of the largest global value-based trend studies on climate action on Tuesday, ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit next week.
Stretching 20 countries and carried out over a six-year period, extensive research based on 247,722 interviews measured people’s values ​​around their environmental problems and climate change and found that 78 percent of the world’s population was united in their anxiety about their environment.
“In India it is increasingly worried about the damage caused by people to the planet.
This figure has increased from 82 percent in 2014 to 87 percent in 2021,” research findings.
“The worries of the world environment continue to increase despite Covid-19 pandemic.
In China and India, environmental problems are framed as worries about pollution than about climate change,” it revealed.
The research release was arranged in the future the G20 Summit in Rome and the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, held by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other world leaders.
“The world population has been awakened with the echological crisis urgency.
Anxiety about human damage made the planet Earth unite people from all walks of life,” said Martijn Lampert, Director of Research and Co-founder of Glosality.
“The time has come for a brave leadership, based on facts and visionaries to build a large coalition to maintain the vitality of our planet and future generations.
People in all countries want to contribute and far ahead of many political leaders in recognizing the urgency of the tasks faced,” he said .
This study noted that several G20 countries have not committed new climate financing – including G20 Italy hosts, where concerns about the damage to the planet have increased from 83 percent to 90 percent between 2014 and 2021.
Surveys were held in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, England and the US.
They revealed that the anxiety about human damage to the planet was now observed as a global trend in all age groups, gender, education and socio-cultural background, with climate change which was the most important global environment of our time, followed by air and water pollution .
Michael Sheldrick, Co-Founder and Head of Policy, Impact and Affairs of the World Citizenship Government, added: “R in five people worldwide worried about the damage caused by the planet.
In front of COP26, G20 countries – responsible for 80 percent Of all emissions – must respond to this broad concern by adopting clear steps to cut emissions of up to half in 2030.
“and developed countries – including Italy, Spain and Australia – must bring for new financial commitments in the coming days To provide USD 10-15 billion is still needed to fulfill the annual climate promise of USD 100 billion made for developing countries.
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