{"id":12039,"date":"2019-11-29T11:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T06:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12039"},"modified":"2019-11-29T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T06:04:03","slug":"eu-declares-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/eu-declares-climate-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"EU declares climate emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The European Union (EU) has approved a resolution declaring a climate and environmental emergency in Europe and globally. It has thus become the first multilateral bloc to declare a climate emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Climate emergency is a call for governments across the world to change their behaviour towards the climate and biodiversity.<\/li><li>EU Resolution on Climate emergency calls for EU to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 to become climate neutral by 2050.<\/li><li>It calls to reduce global emissions from shipping and aviation.<\/li><li>It states that EU countries should at least double their contributions to the international Green Climate Fund.<\/li><li>It urgently calls on all EU countries to phase out all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <strong>UK is the firs<\/strong>t national government to declare such an emergency. <strong>Ireland<\/strong> became the second country to declare climate emergency. Canada and Bangladesh has also declared climate emergency<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>European Union<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of comprising 28 European countries<\/li><li>The EU was created by the Maastricht Treaty, which entered into force on November 1, 1993.<\/li><li>The primary goals of the European Union are:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>o\tpromote peace, its values and the well-being of its citizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>o\toffer freedom, security and justice without internal borders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>o\tsustainable development based on balanced economic growth and price stability,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>o\ta highly competitive market economy with full employment and social progress, and environmental protection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing the causes of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/factly.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/EU.png?w=750\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12040\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The European Union (EU) has approved a resolution declaring a climate and environmental emergency in Europe and globally. It has thus become the first multilateral bloc to declare a climate emergency. Facts: Climate emergency is a call for governments across the world to change their behaviour towards the climate and biodiversity. EU Resolution on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/eu-declares-climate-emergency\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU declares climate emergency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[4367],"class_list":["post-12039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-climate-emergency","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704738167},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}