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The climate emergency

Carmel Cacopardo Sunday, 8 September 2019, 10:37 Last update: about 4 months ago

Declaring a climate emergency is a positive

step: recognising that the current state of
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the climate creates an emergency situation
signi es that we are aware that time is
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The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland,
France, Canada, Austria and Argentina,
together with various municipalities and
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local authorities all around the world, have
declared a Climate Emergency.  These
include New York and San Francisco in the
USA, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia,
Paris and Mulhouse in France, Seville, Zaragoza, Catalonia and the Canary Islands in Spain,
Milan, Naples and Lucca in Italy, the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland, Bonn, Cologne
and Düsseldorf in Germany, Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand, Amsterdam in
Holland, Warsaw and Krakow in Poland and Bacolod in the Philippines. This was one of 2 2
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The Climate Emergency Declaration was certainly a positive step, but what comes next is Share

more important because if the words of the declaration are not translated into action the
President postpones
declaration will not be worth the paper it is printed on. trip to London as
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The basic point which emerges from a Climate Emergency Declaration is the recognition
that action on climate change is a political priority and all the actions of governments Share

should be developed in recognition of this basic fact.

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underlines the fact that, notwithstanding the Paris Climate Change Summit pledges by the Daphne, Vince Muscat

international community, the global temperature is on track for an increase that is double Share

the maximum which we are advised should not be exceeded: that is 3º Celsius above the
pre-industrial temperature. This anticipated astronomical increase is the cause of the PN MP says Schembri
a ‘criminal
emergency: the cumulative impact of climate action on a global level so far indicates that mastermind’ in
the minimum targets set will not be met.
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As a result of climate change, parts of the globe will become progressively uninhabitable
with increasing temperature, intensi cation of storms, droughts in some parts of the Watch: ‘I am not here
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world and oods in others, all of which will disrupt our life as we know it.
Michael Falzon
Earlier this week, the European Environment Agency (EEA) published a short report Share
entitled Climate Change Threatens the Future of Farming in Europe, underlining the fact that
the temperature in Southern Europe will be such that the yield from various crops will be DEALTODAY.COM.MT ‹ 7/12 ›
reduced by 50 by 2050. Simultaneously, the increase in temperature in Northern Europe
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The emergency is real and yet there is still a small time-frame during which it can be
addressed. We need to take serious action to address the causes of climate change: an
unsustainable lifestyle which assumes that tomorrow never comes.  

We do not need many more reports. The causes of climate change are known but there is
an insu cient political will to act. Postponing the problem into the future will not solve
anything as tomorrow may be too late.

It is for this reason that we need to recognise the fact that a climate emergency exists and YOUR PRICE:
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focus our attention on a commitment to take action on climate change as a matter of
priority.

Achieving carbon neutrality in the shortest possible time should be a clear objective of all
governments. This can be achieved by acting immediately in all areas, but primarily in
those where immediate results could be attained.
Selling a
It is for this reason that the Greens in Malta have, in recent months, focused on the
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transport sector as the most obvious area that could contribute substantially to Malta’s Pay No Commission
e orts against climate change. Given the short distances between localities, sustainable
mobility can be easily achieved by means other than private cars using fossil fuel. I think it
to Agents.
makes many people angry, as it does me, that people use cars far too much and there is
certainly a lack of encouragement to use alternatives. FIND OUT MORE

The Transport Master Plan underlines the attainability of this objective by pointing out
that over 50 per cent of journeys by private car are for less than 15 minutes and for
distances not exceeding ve kilometres. Malta Independent
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Climate action rhetoric needs to be translated into concrete action – and the sooner the
better. It is the only way to address the emergency.
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