{"id":12829,"date":"2019-05-10T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T09:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/climate-change-ireland-declares-climate-emergency\/"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:15:58","slug":"climate-change-ireland-declares-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/climate-change-ireland-declares-climate-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland The Latest To Declare Climate Change Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland has become the latest to announce the grand statement of there being a &#8220;climate emergency&#8221; although like all other announcers details on what they intend to do remains light.<\/p>\n<p>There is no single definition of what that means but the stock statement seems to be carbon-neutrality by 2030. Hopefully, soon we will see some defined action plans like making electric cars cheaper, getting a proper public transport network, putting solar panels on every roof, and encouraging more planet-friendly eating, but we won&#8217;t hold our breath.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Its official.Ireland becomes 2nd country in the world to declare a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClimateEmergency?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClimateEmergency<\/a> &amp; D\u00e1il also agreed to endorse all the recommendations of the Oireachtas Climate Action Report .Definitely one of the highlights for me as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenparty_ie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@greenparty_ie<\/a> TD .My children are thrilled. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bcQhvYxvqx\">pic.twitter.com\/bcQhvYxvqx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catherine Martin TD (@cathmartingreen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cathmartingreen\/status\/1126548324440473600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We have read the referred to Oireachtas Climate Action Report and although it makes plenty of general observations it remains to be seen what tangible actions will be put into place. If you want to read it for yourself you can access it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/committees\/32\/climate-action\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: hrui\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"inherit inline\"><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland has become the latest to announce the grand statement of there being a &#8220;climate emergency&#8221; although like all other announcers details on what they intend to do remains light. There is no single definition of what that means but the stock statement seems to be carbon-neutrality by 2030. Hopefully, soon we will see some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[1129],"class_list":["post-12829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-european-news","tag-climate-change"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12851,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions\/12851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}