City of Sydney councillors to vote on declaring climate crisis a national emergency

City of Sydney councillors are set to vote on declaring the climate crisis a national emergency that “poses a serious risk to the people of Sydney”.

The Sydney lord mayor, Clover Moore. The council’s motion
calls on the federal government to reintroduce a carbon price
and establish a ‘Just Transition Authority’.

If passed, the council will join hundreds of local governments worldwide that have made similar declarations.

The Sydney lord mayor, Clover Moore, said in a mayoral minute published Friday that “successive federal governments have shamefully presided over a climate disaster, and now we are at a critical juncture – we face a climate emergency.

“On January 24 2019, 91 of the hottest 100 places on earth were in Australia,” Moore said. “Heat waves on our continent are now five times more likely. But it is not just their frequency that is alarming – they start earlier, become hotter, and last longer.

Read the story from The Guardian by Lisa Cox - “City of Sydney councillors to vote on declaring climate crisis a national emergency.”