This video shows how New York City Council declared a climate emergency on 26 June 2019. New York is the largest city in the US, with over 8.62 million inhabitants, and as CNN noted, this is the first US city with more than a million residents to declare a climate emergency. New York City Council’s Read more about New York City Council declares a climate emergency[…]

On 26 February 2019, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved a resolution to declare a climate emergency, following the lead of other Bay Area cities like Berkeley, Hayward, Richmond and Oakland. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body within the government of the City and County of San Francisco in California, USA, Read more about USA: San Francisco officially declares a climate emergency[…]

On 30 October 2018, the City of Oakland in California passed a “Resolution Endorsing the Declaration of a Climate Emergency and Requesting Regional Collaboration on an Immediate Just Transition and Emergency Mobilization Effort to Restore a Safe Climate.” Oakland follows in the footsteps of Berkeley and Richmond, becoming the third California city to declare a Read more about USA: City of Oakland declares a climate emergency[…]

On 25 August 2018, the Democratic National Committee passed a climate emergency resolution which is a reassertion of a 2016 DNC platform amendment, calling for climate mobilisation. The resolution expresses “the sense of the DNC that climate change poses an urgent and severe threat to our national security” found that: “…in light of the catastrophic Read more about USA: Democrats pass new resolution on climate emergency[…]