{"id":34229,"date":"2020-11-30T04:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T04:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34229"},"modified":"2020-11-30T04:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T04:48:22","slug":"what-is-a-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/what-is-a-climate-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a climate emergency?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s government will decide next week if a climate emergency should be declared in the country or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, the Oxford dictionaries declared \u201cclimate emergency\u201d to be the word of the year, a word that reflects \u201cthe ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year, and have lasting potential as a term of cultural significance\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It defines climate emergency as \u201ca situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the countries that have declared a climate emergency in recent years include the UK, Portugal, Canada, France and, most recently, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last November, the parliament of New Zealand passed the Zero-Carbon Act, which commits New Zealand to zero carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s government will decide next week if a climate emergency should be declared in the country or not. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In 2019, the Oxford dictionaries declared \u201cclimate emergency\u201d to be the word of the year, a word that reflects \u201cthe ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year, and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[1189],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2020","tag-environment-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34231,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34229\/revisions\/34231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34229"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}