Concern about climate change shrinks globally as threat grows, survey shows

Fewer than half of those questioned in global poll believe climate change poses a very serious threat'

Concerns about climate change shrank across the world last year, with fewer than half of those questioned in a new survey believing it posed a very serious threat" to their countries over the next 20 years.

Only 20% of people in China, the world's biggest polluter, said they believed that climate change was a very serious threat, down 3 percentage points from the last survey by Gallup World Risk Poll in 2019.