“Recognition of the climate emergency is much more widespread than previously thought,” Stephen Fisher, a political sociologist at the University of Oxford and co-author of the report, said in a statement released Wednesday. “We’ve also found that most people clearly want a strong and wide-ranging policy response.”
Fellow co-author Cassie Flynn, the strategic adviser on climate change at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), told
The Guardian that “the voice of the people is clear they want action on climate change.”
Survey data were gathered from 1.2 million respondents in 50 high-, middle-, and low-income countries covering 56% of the world’s population, thanks to what the UNDP called a “new and unconventional approach to polling.”
Humanity is facing a climate emergency agrees 1.2 million people globally according to UN survey
Nearly 75 percent of residents in small island states facing the prospect of losing their homelands to rising seas perceived the climate threat as an emergency.
Jan 29, 2021 11:39:03 IST
Nearly two-thirds of 1.2 million people polled worldwide say humanity faces a climate emergency, according to a UN survey, the largest of its kind ever undertaken. Young and old, rich and poor, respondents in 50 nations home to more than half the global population also chose from a score of policy options to tackle the problem, researchers at the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Oxford reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the grassroots global climate movement that surged onto the world stage in 2019 led, in part, by a then 16-year Greta Thunberg of Sweden is still gaining momentum, even if a raging pandemic has obscured its scope.
A second UN term for a champion of causes crucial to the Caribbean
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By Sir Ronald Sanders
United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has announced his availability to serve a second term when his current term ends on December 31.
Arguably, Guterres is the UN Secretary-General that has paid the greatest attention to the concerns and challenges of the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Over the last four years, the policies and priorities he has vigorously pursued and tirelessly advocated have aligned with the interests of the people of the region.
When three Caribbean countries experienced grave destruction in 2017 and 2019, Guterres made it his business to fly to them, not only to witness the devastation, but to make the world aware of the catastrophes, and to formulate plans to help.