Survey finds Edmontonians increasingly concerned about climate change: city
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The City of Edmonton has released the results of a poll that finds people living in Alberta's capital are growing increasingly concerned about climate change.
The City of Edmonton has released the results of a poll conducted earlier this year which finds people living in Alberta’s capital are growing increasingly concerned about climate change and the importance of acting swiftly on the issue.
“This past August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated strongly that ‘it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,'” Chandra Tomaras, the city’s director of environment and climate resilience,” said in a news release on Monday.
“The survey result demonstrates that this message connects with Edmontonians and that they realize we all have a role to play in preventing and mitigating climate change.”
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The survey is now in its fifth year. The latest poll found 75 per cent of respondents agree that climate change is a concern, up one percentage point from the city’s previous climate change survey.
Seventy-seven per cent of respondents said they agreed “we need to act now to address climate change,” up two percentage points from the previous poll.
Seventy-four per cent of respondents said they agree climate change is caused mostly by human activity, up three percentage points from the last survey.
“While individual level of concern about climate change has remained relatively constant over the last five years, agreement that Edmontonians at large are concerned and taking action on climate change has markedly increased,” the city’s summary of the survey reads.
