{"id":74430,"date":"2019-05-14T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=74430"},"modified":"2019-05-14T06:58:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:58:19","slug":"environment-and-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/environment-and-climate-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment and Climate Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n <strong>Question: Which of the following country became the first in the world to declare an environment and climate emergency? <\/strong>\n<br>(a)\tLaos\n<br>(b)\tPeru\n<br>(c)\tUnited Kingdom\n<br>(d)\tMarshall Islands\n <strong><br>Answer: (c)\n<br>Related facts: <\/strong>\n\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The UK Parliament on 1<sup>st<\/sup> May, 2019, became the first national legislative body in the world to declare a&nbsp;climate change emergency when the Parliament passed an extraordinary measure;&nbsp;a national declaration&nbsp;of an Environment and Climate Emergency.<\/li><li>The emergency declaration was proposed by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.<\/li><li>This step taken after&nbsp;Extinction Rebellion&nbsp;protests that blocked traffic in key parts of central London&nbsp;for a week&nbsp;in April 2019.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>The protesters held three key demands: UK government to tell the truth about climate change, to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 and that it create a citizens&#8217; assembly to help with that process.<\/li><li>Ministers should draft proposals within the next six months to restore the country&#8217;s environment and create a zero waste economy.<\/li><li>The motion asks the government to work towards carbon neutrality before 2050. <\/li><li>Regional and Municipal UK governments have already declared climate emergencies, among them Wales, Scotland, Manchester and London.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk-becomes-first-country-to-declare-a-climate-emergency-116428\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk-becomes-first-country-to-declare-a-climate-emergency-116428<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/uk-parliament-climate-emergency-2636090140.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/uk-parliament-climate-emergency-2636090140.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following country became the first in the world to declare an environment and climate emergency? (a) Laos (b) Peru (c) United Kingdom (d) Marshall Islands Answer: (c) Related facts: The UK Parliament on 1st May, 2019, became the first national legislative body in the world to declare a&nbsp;climate change emergency when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-74430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}