As worldwide enterprise leaders, policymakers and civil society representatives gather in Cali, Colombia (Oct. 21 to Nov. 1) for the 2024 United Nations biodiversity summit (COP16), our latest Radar worldwide public opinion polling outcomes highlight the notably extreme stage of concern about biodiversity loss amongst respondents inside the Latin American nations surveyed — notably in Colombia.
GlobeScan’s present information reveals that virtually 8 in 10 people in Latin America think about that the shortage of animal and plant species is a “very extreme” downside compared with merely over half in North America (U.S. and Canada) and nearly 6 in 10 in Europe along with in Africa and the Middle East, whereas solely 4 in 10 inside the Asia-Pacific space say that biodiversity loss is of good concern to them. Colombians are in all probability probably the most concerned of the 31 nations and territories surveyed, with 82 p.c calling the shortage of animal and plant species “very extreme,” adopted by Mexicans at 80 p.c.
What does this suggest?
Colombia is no doubt one of the vital biodiverse nations on the planet, the place deforestation and completely different threats to its biodiversity are linked to will enhance in social inequality, internal armed battle and the illegal drug commerce, amongst completely different factors. As with native climate change, these outcomes as soon as extra current that these which can be further inclined to its outcomes moreover tend to express in all probability probably the most concern.
Primarily based totally on a largely advisor on-line survey of over 30,000 people all through 31 nations and territories, Radar attracts upon GlobeScan’s distinctive database of better than twenty years of polling public opinion about people’s outlook in the direction of societal actors and the issues affecting them.
Survey question: For each of the subsequent doable worldwide points, please level out if you happen to occur to see it as a very extreme, significantly extreme, not very extreme, or on no account vital problem: The dearth of animal and plant species
Provide: GlobeScan Radar Developments Report (survey of 30,216 people in the general public in July-August 2024)