The coal terminal at Lianyungang port, in the eastern Jiangsu province of China; 80% of Chinese citizens want a quick green transition, the UN poll found.The coal terminal at Lianyungang port, in the eastern Jiangsu province of China; 80% of Chinese citizens want a quick green transition, the UN poll found.
In the US, the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, 54% of people want a fast transition, as do 75% of those in Saudi Arabia, the second biggest oil producer. The poll also found 69% of Australians want a quick transition away from its large coal and gas sector. The poll questioned 75,000 people in countries representing almost 90% of the global population. It found a large majority wanted their countries to strengthen their climate change commitments, with only 5% saying their country should weaken its action.Even more – 86% – wanted to see their countries set aside geopolitical differences and work together on climate change.
“But we are definitely peaking on fossil fuels and we are seeing exponential growth rates in renewables and what the public ultimately wants is unquestionably pointing in the direction of a net zero transition.”The Marathon Petroleum Corp’s Los Angeles refinery in Carson, California. The US is the world’s largest oil and gas producer; 54% of its citizens polled wanted a quick green transition.