Conservation, Renewables Top UN Survey of Climate Change Actions
- 64% of respondents said climate change is a global emergency
- Plant-based diets, cheap insurance least popular solutions
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Conserving forests and investing in renewable power are the most popular ways to combat climate change, according to a United Nations-backed global survey.
Both options were supported by slightly more than half of 1.2 million respondents in more than 50 countries. The poll was conducted by the United Nations Development Programme by asking questions in the middle of mobile games including Angry Birds, and data was processed at the University of Oxford. The UN estimates the sample represents about 56% of the world’s population.