→ ClimateEmergency.uk’s news page (United Kingdom):Ĭity by City Campaign: The Race to Mobilize Is OnĬlimate emergency action – best practice Trello → CACE Online’s list (Melbourne, Australia): → CEDAMIA’s list in chronological order (Adelaide, Australia): Various lists are being updated independently, including: This data compilation was initiated by Philip Sutton. New Zealand (Parliament): 1 December 2020 South Korea (National Assembly): 28 September 2020
Northern Ireland (Assembly): 3 February 2020 Spain (National Gov./Cabinet): 21 January 2020Īndorra (General Council): 23 January 2020 Northern Ireland (National Assembly): 2 February 2020 Italy (Chamber of Deputies): 12 December 2019 Spain (Congress of Deputies): 17 September 2019Īustria (National Council Lower House): 25 September 2019īangladesh (Parliament): 13 November 2019Įuropean Union (Parliament – 27 member states): 28 November 2019 Scotland (Scottish Government): 28 April 2019 National and supra-national government climate emergency declarations → Map of Swedish municipalities – which visualises the status of each, including those who end up voting against declaring a climate emergency. → Cedamia’s World map of climate emergency declarations → For more about the history, see Cedamia’s timeline The Canadian House of Commons followed on 17 June 2019, and the French parliament a climate emergency on 27 June 2019.
The Parliament of Portugal declared a climate emergency on 7 June 2019 – that is, the Assembly of the Republic passed the declaration but it still requires further approval by the Council of Ministers, which hasn’t happened. The next day, the Isle of Man parliament declared a climate emergency as well.
On, the Gibraltar Parliament followed, and the government of the Republic of Ireland announced their declaration on 9 May. On, the United Kingdom Labour Party got unanimous support for a non-binding motion in favour of a climate emergency declaration in the House of Commons, claiming Britain thereby was the first country in the world where a bipartisan parliament had declared a climate emergency. Some say it was Scotland, though, because on 28 April 2019, the First Minister of Scotland declared a climate emergency on behalf of her government at an annual Scottish National Party conference. On 29 April 2019, the first parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency at the national level was the Welsh Parliament. These are the overall figures, based on population statistics available via the Internet: On 2 December 2020, the federal government rejected a Climate Emergency Declaration Bill proposed by the Greens’ leader Adam Bandt. In the federal election, more than 100 of the candidates signed the Climate Emergency Declaration petition. In Australia, where the climate emergency declaration mobilisation and petition was launched on this website in May 2016, over 100 jurisdictions representing 9 million people – over a third of the population – have declared a climate emergency, including the government of the Australian Capital Territory, based in the capital Canberra, and South Australia’s Upper House. The EU is counted as one jurisdiction in the ‘governments total’, but not included in the country count. Typical resolutions include setting up a process to develop an action plan and report back to council within three to six months.Ģ3 national governments have declared a climate emergency. As such, the non-binding motion instigated by UK Labour, for example, is not included in this data. On the list below are only included jurisdictions that have passed a binding motion declaring a climate emergency. In January 2021, a United Nations survey with 1.2 million respondents in 50 countries, the largest survey of public opinion on climate change ever conducted, found that 64 per cent of people said that climate change was an emergency. In Britain around 92 per cent of the population lives in areas where the local authorities – over 500 councils all together – have declared a climate emergency. Over 61 million of these live in the United Kingdom. Populations covered by jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency amount to over 1 billion citizens. 2,037 jurisdictions in 36 countries have declared a climate emergency.