Climate change vs crime
According to 63% of the world’s consumers, tackling climate change is every bit as important as fighting crime – in fact, as many as 13% among them think it is MORE important.
That is one of the revelations from the HSBC Climate Confidence Monitor 2009, a survey which questioned people from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mexico, the UK and the USA regarding their attitudes to climate change.
Priorities for Spending Public Money vs. Climate Change
A country-by-country analysis of the crime vs. climate change debate shows broadly similar opinions across the globe, with some interesting variations.
In France, as many as 18% think dealing with climate change is more important than fighting crime, and 17% in Hong Kong agree with them, while only 7% from the United Kingdom concur.
The UK places the highest priority on tackling crime, with 58% believing it to be more important than battling climate change, followed by the US with 50%.
However, the people of Hong Kong, Germany, France and Mexico differ, with those seeing crime as a greater priority than climate change numbering 22%, 23%, 25% and 27% respectively.
The majority of consumers in Germany (63%), Hong Kong (61%), Mexico (60%), France (57%), China (54%) and Brazil (53%) think tackling climate change and fighting crime are equally important.
The importance of tackling crime compared to climate change, by country, 2009
For more information, see http://www.hsbc.com/1/2/climateconfidencemonitor
