The table below shows the percentages of respondents who believe that seven different issues will be the most important environmental issue in the next five years at the regional, national and global levels. Summarize by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table gives information about the percentages of people who think seven various environmental issues will be the most significant in the next five years at three different levels

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regional, national, and global.

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, climate change is seen as the most important issue globally and regionally,

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water quality and quantity are the top

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at the national level.

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, some issues received very low percentages or even zero in certain categories. Looking at the details, climate change was chosen by 33% of respondents globally, making it the highest figure in that category. It is

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the highest at the regional level with 28%, and stood at 22% nationally. Meanwhile, water quality and quantity are the main

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nationally at 28%, followed by 25% globally and 14% regionally. For other issues, regulatory reform and rollbacks and planning and policy development both stood at 11% at the regional and global levels, but dropped to 3% nationally. Urban planning and urban growth accounted for 11% nationally, but only 3% regionally and globally.

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, conservation of working lands was at 7% for both regional and national levels, but recorded 0% globally,

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air pollution was 0% regionally, 7% nationally, and 3% globally.