{"id":183013,"date":"2024-10-21T18:32:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-climate-change-awareness-in-botswana-is-low-but-informed-citizens-desire-action\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T18:32:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:32:14","slug":"botswana-climate-change-awareness-in-botswana-is-low-but-informed-citizens-desire-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-climate-change-awareness-in-botswana-is-low-but-informed-citizens-desire-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Climate Change Awareness in Botswana Is Low, but Informed Citizens Desire Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Majorities call for &#8216;a lot more&#8217; effort by the government, rich countries, and the private sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost half (45%) of Batswana say droughts have become more severe in their region over the past 10 years, double the share of those who say they have lessened in severity (22%). o Only one in 20 citizens (5%) say floods have grown in severity over the past decade, a significant decline from the 31% who said as much in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Only three in 10 Batswana (29%) say they have heard of climate&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410210226.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majorities call for &#8216;a lot more&#8217; effort by the government, rich countries, and the private sector. Key findings Almost half (45%) of Batswana say droughts have become more severe in their region over the past 10 years, double the share of those who say they have lessened in severity (22%). o Only one in 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[6394,258,256,8837,4718,2462,7796,7604,6239,10459,10384,257,254],"class_list":["post-183013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awareness","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-change","tag-citizens","tag-climate","tag-desire","tag-informed","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}