Motion Amendment

Climate Emergency (revised wording) - Amendment 1

Climate Emergency (revised wording) - Amendment 1
Leave 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.’
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Private Members' Motion
30/01/2020
03/02/2020
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