Motion Amendment

Motion TitleClimate Emergency (revised wording) - Amendment 1

Motion Amendment TextLeave out all after ‘crisis’ and insert: ‘declares a climate emergency; and calls on the Executive to fulfil the climate action and environmental commitments agreed in the New Decade, New Approach agreement by commencing, as a matter of urgency, a review of the Executive’s strategies to reduce carbon emissions in respect of the Paris Accord and the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures by 2100 and to ensure that targets are met; and further calls upon the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to begin immediately work to establish an Independent Environmental Protection Agency based on models of best practice, that will be appointed within 12 months.’

Amendment Number1

Motion Amendment CategoryPrivate Members' Motion

Date Tabled to Business Office30/01/2020

Date of Plenary Debate03/02/2020