A consensus of a magnitude described as “surprising” is emerging from the 2024 Climate Vote, the second edition of a climate change survey supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the results of which were released on June 20. The survey, which was larger than the previous one in 2021, involved more than 73,000 people in 77 countries, representing 87% of the world’s population, and reached citizens who had never been asked about the topic before, including the world’s poorest countries.

The interviews, collected between September 2023 and May 2024, reveal how people are experiencing the climate crisis, their views on how countries have managed it so far and how they would like to address it. We call on leaders and policymakers around the world to take note, UNDP stresses, before the deadline in February 2025 when they will have to submit their climate action plans, the so-called “nationally determined contributions”, updated and aligned with the Paris Agreement, which commits to limiting the increase in the average global temperature to 1.5°C compared to the pre-industrial era. The new pledges from countries will serve to define strategies to combat the climate crisis at COP 30, scheduled for 2025, taking into account the fact that climate change is accelerating faster than expected. (More on asvis.it)