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Climate change and the natural environment:
Tackling climate change
Climate change planSarah Spiliotis - March 2011sarah.spiliotis@kirklees.gov.uk
95% of survey respondents believed that the world's climate is changing, 74% that their everyday actions
contribute towards climate change. Females were more concerned about climate change than males.
The highest proportion of respondents to the survey (86%) agreed that climate change would have an impact on Kirklees in the next 50 years. During the young people's focus group there was a discussion about how climate change does not seem as immediate or important as other concerns in the wider media or in people's everyday lives. The majority of survey respondents and focus group participants said that they were already recycling, reducing household waste, being careful about energy use in the home and cutting down on use of plastic bags. Saving money, convenience/services making it easy and health benefits were survey respondents' top three motivations to live a greener lifestyle. Only one in ten survey respondents supported Government compulsion to change behaviours. We aim to:
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