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
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
The book festival will continue in a half an hour the final program of the day joined by other contributors to her book to discuss their relationships with their mothers while we wait we will show you their recent visit to toledo ohio. Known as the glass capital of the world. Up next we learn about edward libby and his role to turn toledo into the glass city. The city of toledo has been called the glass capital of the world referring to the glass city because of the influence of the Major International corporations producing some aspect of glass and that has been the case since 1888 when the first Glass Factory was brought to toledo in 1868 scott who owned much of what is downtown toledo who was a Real Estate Broker so the article was titled the future great city of the world. So at that time it was founded in 1837 dayton ohio with 18 oh three so there was a 30 year period summit was arrested development so Justice Scott bought real estate when it was pretty cheap and decided he would
Expanders. Continue the tour and learn more about world war ii battalion eight stations. Unday at 6 00. N american artifacts tv and American History tv on the road, with the support of the buckeye broadband cable partners. Visit notable locations. In about 15 minutes, the battle of Fallen Timbers and its native american removal in the west. Later, we learn how toledo became known as the glass capital of the world. We begin with the toledo war. The toledo war goes back to 1787 and a northwest ordinance that established the area that by state andcame establish in order that started at the bottom of Lake Michigan iran east to lake erie. The strip of land formed was called the toledo strip. It was formed by two different surveys and that was a wedgeshaped strip five miles knows theat we indiana border today. Eight miles wide by the time it reaches lake erie. It is a pie shaped, 454 square mile edge that became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan really started to wrangle over. Point bo
And Megan Phelps Roper recounts growing up as a member of the Westboro Baptist church. Watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival today starting at 11 30 a. M. Eastern. And be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and the Miami Book Fair in november on booktv on cspan2. Coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as a glass capital of the world. Later the toledo van band crash of 1931. We begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are often taken for granted there is a such wonderful history here. They had built things. The first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston. Drawn by rich reservoir natural gas. Brought his Glass Company to toledo and opened a plant on ash street in north toledo. Its on the same site today. The glass industry was big and important into in toledo once did that. As the eco