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COP26 Action Hub Event: Ipsos Mori: Mythbusting the Global Climate of Opinion | UN Climate Change
Media www.rajawalisiber.com – This COP26 Action Hub event focused on public engagement on climate action, and the discrepancy between record high public concern and the fact behaviours have not changed in last seven years.
It showcased relevant new data that highlights three main barriers to climate action action:
1.Believe-True Gap – public’s misperceptions of issues and impactful actions to take 2. Shared Responsibility – perceptions of impact and responsibility 3. Sustainability as a co-benefit – how governments and industry can leverage engagement with strategic communications and positioning of sustainability as a co-benefit rather than a sole driver.
The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change.
UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The ultimate objective of all three agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.