Climate change knowledge, attitude, and perception of university students in UAE (Research paper1)

This study aims to understand, evaluate, and analyze the level of knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions university students in the UAE have toward climate change, while investigating how various demographics might influence the research results. Climate change is a significant issue faced by people all around the world. Students have the obligation to tend to these concerns in the near future. This year UAE is holding the COP to educate their population and transform the country more sustainable. This research is a step towards the goal of understanding the KAP the students have regarding this phenomenon. We are required to raise our awareness, especially the crucial population that will represent the next generation. There was a need to address the gap of university students missing from any sort of analysis done on them. Before this, almost no research directed their focus on the KAP of students in UAE. We distributed and gathered 50 responses to our questionnaire. University students were surveyed and indicated that they possess a high level of knowledge, attitude, and perception about the ever-changing climate change. The results of knowledge and perception do not have significant differences between genders, while attitude has significant differences. This study also unfortunately encompasses certain gaps, the most common is not distributing the questionnaire to a diverse population as well as the restriction of time.

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