蜜芽传媒

An opinion poll carried out for the 蜜芽传媒 has found that popular support for strong action against climate change is growing around the world. The survey of more than 30,000 people found that 56% wanted their countries to show leadership at the UN climate summit in Glasgow next week.

This is an increase compared to a similar poll conducted five years ago. People in Kenya are among the most enthusiastic. Nairobi-based Dr Agnes Kalibata - President of the Alliance for Green Revolution - says Africa needs a genuine partnership with the biggest polluting countries.

鈥淎ll African countries have stepped forward - they have presented nationally determined contributions that are extremely ambitious鈥�but the rest of the world is putting us on track for a 2.7 degrees (increase in temperature) which is an absolute disaster."

鈥淭here is a huge missed opportunity here to build trust, and is in fact eroding what all these developing countries are trying to do to put forward ambitious plans. Why would they鈥� when big emitters are not doing anything? At COP26 we expect leadership, we expect transparency, we expect ambition 鈥� we don鈥檛 expect business as usual: that is definitely going to create an emergency in the world.鈥�

(Pic: Protest against climate change in Nairobi, Kenya in 2019; Credit: EPA)

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