'World mandate' on climate change
An opinion poll in 11 countries has produced what organisers term a "global mandate" for action on climate change.
About half of the respondents wanted governments to play a major role in curbing emissions, but only a quarter said their leaders were doing enough, reports BBC News on 26 November – five days before this year's UN climate conference opens in the Polish city of Poznan. Nicholas Stern, who led the 2006 Stern Review into the economics of climate change, said this amounted to a global mandate for stronger action.
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