Meaning of climate emergency | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage.
   countable, uncountable
2. An official recognition that such a situation exists.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“The effects of the climate emergency are more evident than biodiversity loss, but still, society is failing to cut emissions, the paper argues. If people understood the magnitude of the crises, changes in politics and policies could match the gravity of the threat.”

“Dozens of local areas have copied Carla's motion and declared climate emergencies including Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Bath.”

CEFR level