vIndianz.com (Dec. 06, 2009) — World anxiety concerning climate change has fallen in the past two years, according to an opinion survey on Sunday, the eve of 190-nation talks in Copenhagen intended to concur a UN deal to battle global warming.
The Nielsen/Oxford University study showed that 37 percent of over 27,000 Internet users in 54 countries said they were “very concerned” regarding climate change, down from 41 percent in a comparable poll two years ago.
“Global anxiety for climate change cools off,” the Nielsen Co. said of the poll, taken in October. It associated the decline to the world economic slowdown.
In the United States, the number two emitter subsequent to China and the just industrialized nation outside the UN’s existing Kyoto Protocol for cutting emissions, the number of those very disturbed fell to 25 percent from 34.
President Barack Obama desires to cut US greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, and plans to join over 100 world leaders in Copenhagen at the end of the December 7-18 meeting to strive to arrive at a fresh UN deal.
China, the top emitter of greenhouse gases, was amongst few nations surveyed where the number of people very worried rose, to 36 from 30 percent.
The survey indicated the highest levels of alarm were in Latin America and Asian-Pacific countries, topped by the Philippines on 78 percent which was struck by Typhoon Ketsana in September. The poll did not cover up most of Africa.
Those least worried by global warming, blamed on human emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, were chiefly in Eastern Europe. Estonia was bottom with just 10 percent saying they were very worried.
“Economic woes momentarily knocked the climate change subject off the top line plan, but as the recession is currently beginning to retreat, we anticipate the Copenhagen summit to press on this significant subject to the front again,” he said.
Worldwide, air and water pollution followed by climate change were the top three environmental concerns for the world population, the survey found.
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