Young residents of the world’s richest, most powerful nations paused their mobile gaming devices to voice their support for bold climate action in their countries — urging the deployment of electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies in a new poll released by the United Nations.
Some 302,000 individuals ages 14-17 made their opinions heard in the G20 Peoples’ Climate Vote, which surveyed more than 689,000 people from October 2020 through June 2021 across Group of 20 (G20) member nations. And to reach as broad a population as possible, the researchers recruited respondents by placing advertisements in mobile gaming networks.
Cassie Flynn, lead author and strategic advisor to the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), told The Hill she had been contemplating how to reach such a diverse sample population in a low-pressure environment.
“And I looked up around me on the subway,…
