85 percent of the EU citizens surveyed consider climate change as a serious problem. To improve public health and quality of life, it is necessary to combat it. This stems from a Eurobarometer survey published on Monday.
Accordingly, the expansion of renewable energies receives a lot of approval; Incentives for insulating houses, installing solar collectors or buying electric cars (88 percent each). This enables the European Union (EU) to improve its energy supply. Almost eight out of ten respondents (77 percent) believe that the costs of damage caused by climate change are much higher than the countermeasures that should promote innovation. To be competitive in the world market for clean technologies, European companies need to be supported more.
Better preparation needed
In general, it is necessary to better prepare for the negative consequences of climate change, says 83 percent of the more than 26,000 respondents. Almost as many support the EU-wide goal to reach climate neutrality until 2050. This means that the climate is not influenced by human activities.
Suitable says 84 percent that climate change is caused by people. In the survey, even more (92 percent) stated that there were individual measures for climate protection and to make sustainable decisions in daily life. A proposal from the EU committee for the following climate goals will be expected by 2040 for Wednesday.
Source: Krone
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