What is a ‘climate emergency’?
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The UK has declared a climate emergency for the national government in Westminster and devolved administrations of Scotland and Wales. But what does it mean?
By James Evison
What is it?
The climate change emergency passed by the UK Government is a motion rather than legislation and does not change the Government’s legally binding targets under international accords, such as Paris, or national legislation, such as the Climate Change Act 2008.
This Labour-led motion is a largely symbolic gestur...
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