Australian City of Sydney Declares Climate Emergency

Sydney: The Australian city of Sydney on Tuesday declared a climate emergency and called for a price on carbon to be reinstated, stressing that global warming poses a danger to its residents and to the whole country. “By declaring a climate emergency, we call on the Federal Government to respond urgently, by reintroducing a price on carbon to meet the Paris Agreement emissions reduction targets,” said Sydney Mayor Clover Moore on Twitter. Moore also stressed that Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions have increased over four consecutive years, and denounced the policies taken by the Liberal-National coalition government headed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, which “are simply not working”, reports Efe news. (IANS)

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