It will take countermeasures condemning the u. S. For meddling in its domestic affairs. And it was britains worst ever sporting tragedy that the police chief accused of being responsible for the deaths of 95. 00 liverpool fans back in then 1989 in the Hillsborough Disaster is cleared of manslaughter. And they are thank you so much for your Company Everyone the European Parliament has voted to declare a Climate Emergency the resolution was passed with a clear majority is strasburg lawmakers hope the move will send a powerful signal to the un Climate Summit which starts in madrid next week and also human to put pressure on the incoming e. U. Executive to take a leading role in the global fight against Climate Change. All right theyre upping the ante lets take you now to Garrett Marcus our correspondent in brussels good to see you gail how significant is this. It is of course symbolic gesture here that comes from the peace in strasbourg and theyre well aware of that there were some concer
Im sure 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 un Climate Summit which starts in betrayed next week and also right 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 him 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 a symbolic power and it can have Agenda Setting power the European Parliament i
After 3 decades behind. European parliament has declared a Climate Emergency the resolution was passed with a clear majority in stroudsburg a lawmakers hope the move will send a powerful signal to the u. N. Climate summit which starts in madrid next week they also aim to put pressure on the incoming executive to take a leading role in the global fight against Climate Change yet they dont do correspondent gold matters told us that while the resolution passed i wasnt 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 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 state of emergency. Well from wildfires to floods hurricanes to parched river bad Scientists Say Climate Change is making itself felt ever more urgently around the world even the p
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
Fossil energy sector. We are dealing with the agricultural sector, so theres many things that need to happen as a next step. The Climate Emergency statement was our first step in the process. Its interesting you raise the use of fossil fuels or agriculture. Within the european union, nobody dares touch agriculture and the fossil fuels and coal mining are huge here in germany. Thats going to be a very bitter pill to swallow. Yes, it will, and its nonot only germany. You also have countries like poland and the Czech Republic who also have substantial amounts of coal, so they are going to expect some kind of compensation, so i think one of the things we are likely to see in the december meeting of the heads of state is discscussions ababout how compensation mechanisms canan be introduced o help thohose regioions and those countries that are heaeavily dependent on fossil fuels make a transition away from them. That will bring in the sort of social justice e element to this whole question,