Typical resolutions include setting up a process to develop an action plan and report back to council within three to six months.ġ8 national governments and the EU 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. It has been estimated that by 2050, the result of these declarations and consequencial response plans in the UK alone will have spared the planet’s atmosphere for approximately 2,5 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents. In Britain around 95 per cent of the population lives in areas where the local authorities – over 570 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.
2,339 jurisdictions in 40 countries have declared a climate emergency.
