Ireland becomes second country to declare climate emergency
Climate change activists staging a protest demanding that EU governments declare a state of climate and ecological emergency in Brussels, Belgium, last month. Ireland has joined Britain to declare climate emergency. – EPA pic, May 10, 2019.
IRELAND’S Parliament has become the second after Britain’s to declare a climate emergency, a decision hailed by Swedish teenage environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg as “great news”. An amendment to a parliamentary report declaring a “climate emergency” and calling on Parliament “to examine how can improve its response to the issue of biodiversity loss” was accepted without a vote late yesterday.
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