With almost 2,000 councils around the world having declared that we are in a climate emergency, what next? Now what? Below are just a few examples of what is currently happening in councils, boroughs and shires that have declared a climate emergency: Climate emergency response plans which involve the entire community are emerging as a Read more about Ambitious climate emergency response plans emerge[…]
The fact that we are in a climate emergency will be covered more broadly in April when some of the biggest names in news — Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, NBC News, CBS News, PBS, VICE, Noticias Telemundo, Asahi Shimbun, Times of India and many local outlets around the world — join Read more about Global media initiative: ‘Climate Emergency Week’[…]
The campaign for a Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill in United Kingdom is getting support from a growing number of UK politicians, currently over 100 MPs and councillors. In this video, Charlie Gardner from University of Kent explains what the British Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill is about: → Share this video on Facebook | Read more about United Kingdom: Campaign for Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill[…]
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Earl Blumenauer have introduced a bill in the US Congress that would require President Joe Biden to invoke emergency powers to tackle the climate crisis. The Climate Emergency Act of 2021 would unlock 136 statutory powers under the National Emergencies Act, typically available only under extraordinary circumstances, which a climate emergency can be classified as. “We have to Read more about USA: Climate Emergency Bill introduced in Congress[…]
Getting personal: Melanie Scaife, a mother facing the climate emergency, shares her ‘head-cracking moment’ when climate change became a real, rather than abstract part of her daughters future, and doing nothing ceased to be an option. It happened as she was urging her local council to declare a climate emergency. The podcast episode “Everything you Read more about Australia: ‘Head-cracking moment’ of declaration campaign[…]
After an almost six hour long debate, the Members of Parliaments voted on and passed a motion, which stated: “That this House acknowledges that climate change is a global emergency and a threat to mankind and calls on the Government, in partnership with the private sector, civil society and the people of Singapore, to deepen Read more about Singapore Parliament declares a climate emergency[…]
In Australia in February 2021, the National Climate Emergency Summit 2021 presents a series of critical conversations – Reset.21 forum series – to advance strategy and responses to the climate emergency. “In the wake of an unprecedented year, there has never been a more important time to reconnect and reset action to address the climate Read more about Australia: Climate Emergency Summit: Six forums streamed online[…]
Almost two thirds of people around the world – 64 percent of the world’s population – now view climate change as a global emergency that requires immediate action, according to a global poll which asked 1.2 million people from 50 countries covering more than half of the world’s population. The poll, called ‘The Peoples’ Climate Read more about Two thirds of world population think climate change is a global emergency[…]
On 12 December 2020, the United Nations Secretary-General asked the world’s governments to declare a climate emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached – in recognition of both the urgency and the stakes. The world’s leading media outlets picked up the story right away and distributed the message widely on tv screens and Read more about Response to UN Chief’s global climate emergency declaration call[…]
I call on leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached. Five years after the #ParisAgreement, we are still not going in the right direction. Let’s make the promise of a net zero world a reality. pic.twitter.com/pspktHxQc4 — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) December 12, 2020 At the Read more about United Nations chief calls on governments to declare a climate emergency[…]