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We’re living through a climate emergency. Time to start acting like it

It’s not enough to call climate change an emergency, says Adam Vaughan. We need to take emergency action as well

By Adam Vaughan

20 June 2019

School climate strikers — Strikes by schoolchildren have driven action on climate change
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Climate emergencies are a bit like buses. You wait an age for one and then three come along at once. Parliaments in the and passed motions declaring a climate emergency in May. On Monday, .

It isn’t just parliaments sounding the alarm. “This is a climate emergency,” , using the phrase for the first time. Hours earlier, James Bevan of England’s Environment Agency a climate emergency has for flooding, and…

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