site.btaTrend Poll: Educated Young People Living in Cities Are Particularly Concerned with Climate Change
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112 ENVIRONMENT - CLIMATE CHANGE - POLL
Trend Poll: Educated Young People Living in Cities
Are Particularly Concerned
with Climate Change
Sofia, December 2 (BTA) - Young and active people living in bigger cities are particularly concerned with climate change. Environmental concern decreases with aging, Research Centre Trend found in a national representative poll, realized at the request of MEP Petar Vitanov. The poll was conducted among 1,010 adults between October 13 and 21, 2021, investigating Bulgarians' attitudes towards the main topics related to climate change and the European Green Deal.
According to 78 per cent of the Bulgarian population climate change is a fact and research in the past shows a much lower climate change index than today. Some 6 per cent believe that there is no climate change, Evelina Slavkova said at the presentation of the study at the national press club of BTA.
One-tenth of respondents have the opinion that climate change is the result of natural environmental processes. According to half of the Bulgarian population, human activity also harms the environment. The 25 per cent, who think that human activity impacts climate change, are mostly highly educated, with higher income, living in urban areas, and hold post-materialistic values. Some 6 per cent think climate change does not occur, the survey results show.
More than half of respondents said that they do not by less plastic packaged products to reduce climate change. The 37 per cent, who said they do shop environmentally friendly for this particular reason, are mostly women who live in the capital or regional cities, with higher income and education.
A little more than one-third (37 per cent) of respondents said that they sort their waste for recycling, while those who do not numbered 57 per cent. Young people (30-39 years old), who live in the capital, or the regional cities and have attained higher education are the ones who predominantly engage with recycling their waste. A little more than one-third said they use their car less for environmental reasons.
According to Evelina Slavkova, the poll shows that people want to recycle their waste. There is support for the development of organic farming. Bulgarian society is hardly familiar with the European Green Deal, she commented. In general, there is support for EU initiatives for the substitution of fossil fuels with renewable energy resources, and combustion engine cars with such that have lower to zero gas emissions. Around 30 per cent disagree with fossil fuel substitution, because it is the mean of sustenance for a part of Bulgarian society, and that is why there is resistance, Slavkova concluded.
Vitanov noted that climate change is the main topic at the European Union level, and it is shaping the priorities and policies of institutions for the next 30 years. Climate change worries European citizens (82 per cent) more than poverty, inequality, or anything else, and it is good that 78 per cent still believe climate change is happening, Vitanov comments.
Vitanov stressed that these results should urge political parties to pay serious attention in their political programmes to policies mitigating climate change. According to him, the environmental debate in Bulgaria is absent, while it is the main topic in the political platforms of almost all European countries. DD/YV
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MY1705GB.112
112 ENVIRONMENT - CLIMATE CHANGE - POLL
Trend Poll: Educated Young People Living in Cities
Are Particularly Concerned
with Climate Change
Sofia, December 2 (BTA) - Young and active people living in bigger cities are particularly concerned with climate change. Environmental concern decreases with aging, Research Centre Trend found in a national representative poll, realized at the request of MEP Petar Vitanov. The poll was conducted among 1,010 adults between October 13 and 21, 2021, investigating Bulgarians' attitudes towards the main topics related to climate change and the European Green Deal.
According to 78 per cent of the Bulgarian population climate change is a fact and research in the past shows a much lower climate change index than today. Some 6 per cent believe that there is no climate change, Evelina Slavkova said at the presentation of the study at the national press club of BTA.
One-tenth of respondents have the opinion that climate change is the result of natural environmental processes. According to half of the Bulgarian population, human activity also harms the environment. The 25 per cent, who think that human activity impacts climate change, are mostly highly educated, with higher income, living in urban areas, and hold post-materialistic values. Some 6 per cent think climate change does not occur, the survey results show.
More than half of respondents said that they do not by less plastic packaged products to reduce climate change. The 37 per cent, who said they do shop environmentally friendly for this particular reason, are mostly women who live in the capital or regional cities, with higher income and education.
A little more than one-third (37 per cent) of respondents said that they sort their waste for recycling, while those who do not numbered 57 per cent. Young people (30-39 years old), who live in the capital, or the regional cities and have attained higher education are the ones who predominantly engage with recycling their waste. A little more than one-third said they use their car less for environmental reasons.
According to Evelina Slavkova, the poll shows that people want to recycle their waste. There is support for the development of organic farming. Bulgarian society is hardly familiar with the European Green Deal, she commented. In general, there is support for EU initiatives for the substitution of fossil fuels with renewable energy resources, and combustion engine cars with such that have lower to zero gas emissions. Around 30 per cent disagree with fossil fuel substitution, because it is the mean of sustenance for a part of Bulgarian society, and that is why there is resistance, Slavkova concluded.
Vitanov noted that climate change is the main topic at the European Union level, and it is shaping the priorities and policies of institutions for the next 30 years. Climate change worries European citizens (82 per cent) more than poverty, inequality, or anything else, and it is good that 78 per cent still believe climate change is happening, Vitanov comments.
Vitanov stressed that these results should urge political parties to pay serious attention in their political programmes to policies mitigating climate change. According to him, the environmental debate in Bulgaria is absent, while it is the main topic in the political platforms of almost all European countries. DD/YV
/МЙ/
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