Night: Air Pollution and Climate Change

night: The move will place Conservative MPs under pressure to back the plan, or explain why they refuse to do so, now fears over the combined problems of air pollution and climate change have risen to the top of the political agenda, according to The Guardian. On Saturday night Corbyn said the recent wave of protests were a massive and necessary wake-up call that demanded rapid and dramatic action, which only concerted government action and a green industrial revolution can deliver. Jeremy Corbyn's party will demand on Wednesday that the country wakes up to the threat and acts with urgency to avoid more than 1.5 C of warming, which will require global emissions to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero before 2050. He said that if parliament backed the move and became the first national legislature to declare a climate emergency it would trigger a wave of action from governments around the world . The motion was welcomed by Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who has criticised the inaction of the world's politicians. We can not solve an emergency without treating it like an emergency. It is a great first step because it sends a clear signal that we are in a crisis and that the ongoing climate and ecological crises must be our first priority, she said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.