Police chief accused of being responsible for the deaths of 95. 00 local football fans in the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster is cleared of manslaughter. Hello im told me all logical welcome to the program the European Parliament has declared a Climate Emergency the resolution was passed with a clear majority in strasbourg lawmakers hope the move will send a powerful signal to the un Climate Summit which starts in madrid next week they also aim to put pressure on the incoming e. U. Executive to take a leading role in the global fight against Climate Change. Corresponding dog matters told us that while the climate resolution passed it was. Not unanimous there were some concerns that it could be a sign of panic and that is why. A number of conservative m. P. s in particular voted against this motion but overall a lot of support for the idea to say its not just an urgency it is an emergency that is taking place regarding the climate and so europe has become the 1st continent to declare that st
Im phil gal welcome to the program the European Parliament has declared a Climate Emergency the resolution passed with a clear majority in strasbourg lawmakers hope the move will send a powerful signal to the u. N. Climate summit which begins in the trade next week and also way to put pressure on the incoming executive to take a leading role in the global fight against Climate Change so what effect will this declaration half. Show us who is professor of environmental and Climate Policy of the Technical University of munich welcome to. The declaration itself doesnt propose any concrete measures so how significant is it. Well whats important about this measure is that its joining a number of other countries and cities and states that and said the Climate Change problem is really very serious and its so serious we want to make make this aware to everybody and really say this is a Climate Emergency so i think it has symbolic power and it can have Agenda Setting power the European Parliamen