Britons are still skeptical about climate change urgency, and more so during an economic crisis ✒️ ipaperviews
The last-minute decision of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to attend Cop27 reflects a growing sense of urgency, but Brits may need more convincing United Nations Climate Change Conference
This dramatic language, and the last-minute decision of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to attend despite domestic turbulence, reflects a growing sense of urgency. Extreme weather has dominated headlines in recent months. In Pakistan, hugely destructive floods followed a summer of temperatures that reached as high as 50C. In Europe, heatwaves dried up rivers, and triggered drought warnings and wildfires.
Over the same period, climate change has also risen in importance relative to other environmental issues. Forty five per cent of British people now see climate as the most important environmental issue, compared to 19 per cent in 2010. Nearly two thirds of people think that climate change is extremely or very damaging to the environment , and three quarters think it will, to some degree, be bad for Britain.