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Arctic ice: Europeans worry about global warming but do little beyond sorting waste for recycling (Photo: Karin Beate Nøsterud /norden.org)

Europeans worry but do little about climate change

An overwhelming majority of Europeans - 62 percent - consider climate change the second most serious problem facing the world today, a fresh EU poll has shown. However, they have little appetite for turning green when it comes to their lifestyle.

"There is a clear gap between what citizens say and what citizens are doing about fighting climate change," EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas said on Thursday (11 September), while presenting the survey.

Although 61 percent o...

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Arctic ice: Europeans worry about global warming but do little beyond sorting waste for recycling (Photo: Karin Beate Nøsterud /norden.org)

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