{"id":41500,"date":"2018-12-10T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41500"},"modified":"2018-12-10T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:26:56","slug":"london-assembly-passes-climate-emergency-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41500","title":{"rendered":"London Assembly passes climate emergency motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Assembly passes climate emergency motion<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The London Assembly has passed a motion by a vote of 12 votes for, 0 against, for declaring a climate emergency. The motion by UK Greens Councillor Caroline Russell urges that the Mayor should “declare a Climate Emergency, supported by specific emergency plans with the actions needed to make London carbon neutral by 2030”.<\/p>\n

This follows on from the City of Bristol declaring a climate emergency<\/a> on 13 November 2018, the first UK council to declare a climate emergency. The Bristol motion was passed unanimously. Consequently, the city council set an ambitious goal of making Bristol carbon neutral by 2030.<\/p>\n

Caroline Russel also referred to David Attenborough speech<\/a> to the United Nations climate change conference COP24 meeting in Katowice, Poland, in which he warned, “If we don\u2019t take action the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” The IPCC 1.5C climate science report published in October was also referred to in motivating rapid social transformation needed for meeting the Paris Agreement climate targets and avoiding dangerous climate change..
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The debate within London Assembly on the motion to declare a climate emergency
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