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It’s not enough to call climate change an emergency, says Adam Vaughan. We need to take emergency action as well
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20 June 2019
Strikes by schoolchildren have driven action on climate changeSean Gallup/Getty
By Adam VaughanClimate emergencies are a bit like buses. You wait an age for one and then three come along at once. Parliaments in the UK and Ireland passed motions declaring a climate emergency in May. On Monday, Canada followed suit.
It isn’t just parliaments sounding the alarm. “This is a climate emergency,” said UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa on Tuesday, using the phrase for the first time. Hours earlier, James Bevan of England’s Environment Agency warned of the consequences a climate emergency has …
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