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As Hu Jin Tao, Obama Prepare to Meet, World Public Gives China, U.S. Low Marks on Climate Change
November 11, 2009With President Barack Obama on his way to meet his Chinese counterpart in Beijing for talks on global climate change and other important issues, a poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org shows that publics in more than half of 20 nations disapprove of the way China and the United States are dealing with global warming. The talks are expected to focus on climate change, economic concerns, and nuclear proliferation.. Climate change is of particular importance in the run-up to December's 192-country conference in Copenhagen. The WPO poll, finds that people in 11 nations disapprove of how [China] is "dealing with the issue of climate change." Clear majorities in six nations -- France (74%), Britain (73%), Germany (72%), the United States (69%), South Korea (69%), and Egypt (58%) -- are disapproving, along with pluralities in five other nations. Full release.