The survey by the UN Development Program, Oxford University and GeoPoll posed 15 questions by randomized telephone calls to people in 77 countries, representing 87 percent of the world's population.The key finding was that 80 percent of respondents want their governments to increase efforts to fight global warming.Poorer countries beat this drum the loudest, with 89 percent in favor, though appetite is also high in the wealthy G20 nations , according to the survey.
These included China and the United States , but in Russia, just 16 percent of poll participants were in favor.Worries about global warming have also increased, the survey found, with 56 percent saying they think about climate change at least once a week.Over half of those surveyed said they were more worried about climate change than last year, compared with 15 percent who said they were less worried.