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Poll: Desire for climate change code high
The HSBC's 2009 Climate Confidence Monitor, released Monday, showed 65 percent said they believed it was very important to reach a deal during negotiations in December in Copenhagen on a successor document to the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emission. Seventy-nine percent of people surveyed said they favored emission reduction targets as well.
Nearly seven in 10 people -- 69 percent -- said they thought addressing climate change was as least as important, if not more important, than supporting their country's national economy during the downturn, the survey found.
HSBC, based in London, said Climate Confidence Monitor results showed a desire for stronger action in emerging economies than in developed ones. The four Climate Confidence Monitor questions measure people's concern, confidence, commitment and optimism about climate change.
The report also indicated that the number of people ranking climate change as their top issue fell 8 percent across the board, except in Hong Kong, where concern increased by 9 percent.
"We know that the impacts of climate change will particularly affect the emerging markets and clearly the people of those countries involved, said Stephen Green, HSBC Holdings group chairman. "We look to the Copenhagen meeting to create a framework for a low-carbon economy that will allow emerging markets to prosper and create attractive investment opportunities for businesses worldwide."
The HSBC Climate Partnership is a five-year program running from 2007-2012 with the HSBC, the Climate Group, Earthwatch, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and WWF.
The survey polled 12,000 people globally. No time frame or margin of error were provided.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/02/2009
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11-05-2009 08:29
r jackson wrote:
DESIRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE CODE
I find it sad and disturbing that millions of people are being duped into believing that the Copenhagen Climate Change meeting is about reducing CO2 emissions. It is not. It is about making money from the average tax payer on the pretext that human beings can save the planet from impending doom. Climate Change is the new religion of the masses. I am sure those you surveyed are genuine in their concern for the planet but they are being fooled by the politicians who are following AL Gore's pesimistic predictions based on unprovable science passed off as fact. Time will tell!
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