Local weather change is a crucial situation for the long run for 90% of Cypriots and 50% say that it has affected its on a regular basis life, based on a research by “Mates of the Earth-Cyprus” in cooperation with Eratosthenis Middle of Excellence of the Cyprus College of Know-how (CUT).
A press launch by the College says that the analysis was finished within the framework of «ASTARTE» (EXCELLENCE/0918/0341), challenge and 416 residents had been requested to answer to a questionnaire.
The intention was to succeed in to conclusions as regards the local weather change and other people’s on a regular basis lives and the way schooling and consciousness may play a major position in informing folks and passing on the precise messages.
The press launch says that these conclusions could possibly be used to kind environmentally pleasant insurance policies and methods with the intention to mitigate the consequences of local weather change , to guard the ecosystem and to safeguard the social stability and financial development in a extra sustainable method.
Cypriots consider that the rise of temperature and extended heatwaves are probably the most extreme phenomena that have an effect on our space whereas they assume that discount of rainfall and rise within the depth of waves are much less necessary phenomena. In addition they rank excessive in local weather change results the mud waves, the floods and the bushfires.
Of the modifications of their on a regular basis routine due to the local weather change the residents who replied talked about the change of their work timetable and the exterior actions because of the excessive temperatures, the installment of AC models in locations that didn’t have earlier than and the extra frequent use of them.