PERCEPTIONS OF LIBYANS TOWARDS CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change is a gradual process that occurs with changes to the natural climatic conditions. Climate change is a global phenomenon that poses a crucial challenge to the world, and it has been reported to be a difficult phenomenon for tracking on individual levels of experience, which is a very significant factor in adequate climate change mitigation; individual contributions of environmental sustainability. Individual level of climate change mitigation is a process that is only possible with adequate knowledge and perception of climate change. This study carries out an investigation into the perceptions of Libyans with respect to climate change, the causes of climate change, the impacts of climate change in Libya, and the methods they feel can be efficient in the mitigation of climate change in Libya. This study carried out an analysis of a survey interview of Libyans and has found all the interviewed individuals agree climate change is an important global and Libyan phenomenon. Their responses to the causes, how they can be mitigated, and the responsibility of who it is to mitigate climate change however differs.