Climate change: Nature readers say their fears are growing

Poll shows that 80% of respondents are more concerned in the run-up to the COP26 climate meeting than they were ahead of the Paris conference 6 years ago.

As the governments of almost 200 nations prepare for a pivotal meeting on climate change, scientists have expressed their fears over global warming and lacklustre efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.

With just over a week to go until the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Glasgow, UK, 76% of the more than 650 readers who responded to a Nature survey said they were extremely worried about climate change (see ‘Extreme concerns’), with nearly 60% saying their worries had greatly increased since the last major climate accord, reached in Paris in 2015 (see ‘Growing fears’).

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By: Quirin Schiermeier

Source: Nature