{"id":34720,"date":"2019-11-05T07:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=34720"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:35:39","slug":"climate-emergency-declaration-mb1279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-emergency-declaration-mb1279\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Emergency Declaration Movement Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34721\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34721\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/climate-emergency.jpg\" alt=\"Climate emergency\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/climate-emergency.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/climate-emergency-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/climate-emergency-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/climate-emergency-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/global-warming-climate-change-soil-3371528\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tumisu<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another five councils across Australia have declared a climate emergency in the last few weeks, three of them in New South Wales.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first Australian council to make a declaration was Darebin City Council in 2016. It was on its own for quite a while, with Yarra Valley Council joining in 2017 and only a handful of others in 2018. But declarations have really picked up this year.<\/p>\n<p>Since we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-climate-emergency-mb1256\/\">last reported<\/a> on the movement in mid-October, these are the councils that have made climate emergency declarations, along with links to announcements\/meeting minutes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armidaleregional.nsw.gov.au\/ArticleDocuments\/259\/DRAFT%20Ordinary%20Minutes%2023%20October%202019.PDF.aspx\">Armidale Regional Council<\/a> &#8211; NSW &#8211; 23 October<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midcoast.nsw.gov.au\/News-Media\/MidCoast-Council-declares-climate-emergency\">Midcoast Council<\/a> &#8211; NSW &#8211; 23 October<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JaneBangeParkWard\/posts\/978251575860072\">Mitcham Council<\/a> &#8211; SA &#8211; 22 October<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moyne.vic.gov.au\/News-Media\/Moyne-declares-climate-emergency\">Moyne Shire Council<\/a> &#8211; VIC &#8211; 22 October<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au\/Home-Page-Modules\/announcements\/climate-emergency-and-our-green-city-plan\/\">Willoughby Shire Council <\/a>&#8211; NSW &#8211; 17 October<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to ClimateEmergencyDeclaration.org and at the time of writing, 69 local governments have made a declaration &#8211; just under 13% of all LGAs in Australia. These councils represent more than 6.6 million Australians, or 26.58% of Australia&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, climate emergency declarations were in place in\u00a0 in 1,177 jurisdictions and local government areas, <a href=\"https:\/\/climateemergencydeclaration.org\/climate-emergency-declarations-cover-15-million-citizens\/\">covering 290 million citizens<\/a>, as at November 1. The movement has been particularly strong in the UK and New Zealand where 80 per cent and 74% (respectively) of the population live in area that have declared a climate emergency.<\/p>\n<p>While attempts at making such declarations aren&#8217;t always successful, even in those areas the debate raises awareness of the precarious position we find ourselves in.<\/p>\n<p>Recent rainfall in New South Wales has offered a welcome respite and may take some of the heat out of the push for declarations in some LGAs &#8211; but that precipitation isn&#8217;t fooling farmers as a single downpour doesn&#8217;t necessarily signify the end of a drought.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Energy&#8217;s Role In Council Climate Action<\/h2>\n<p>The nature of climate emergency declarations vary, but as well as acknowledging climate change poses a major threat to local and global communities requiring urgent action by all levels of government, they often contain commitments to local action.<\/p>\n<p>Commonly seen among these actions is increased uptake of solar power or other renewables. It really is a win-win for local governments to install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar<\/a> on their buildings as not only does solar energy reduce greenhouse gas emissions, electricity costs can be slashed.<\/p>\n<p>The use of solar power doesn&#8217;t have to involve panels on rooftops &#8211; councils can also choose to enter into power purchase agreements (PPAs) with solar (or wind) farms. Last month, City Of Sydney signed an agreement that will see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sydney-city-renewables-mb1262\/\">all Council\u2019s electricity supplied<\/a> from wind and solar energy sources from July 2020. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the deal would result in the City saving half a million dollars on electricity costs each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another five councils across Australia have declared a climate emergency in the last few weeks, three of them in New South Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":34721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Climate Emergency Declaration Movement Update - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another five councils across Australia have declared a climate emergency in the last few weeks, three of them in New South Wales.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-emergency-declaration-mb1279\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Climate Emergency Declaration Movement Update\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another five councils across Australia have declared a climate emergency in the last few weeks, three of them in New South Wales.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-emergency-declaration-mb1279\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-04T20:35:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/climate-emergency.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-emergency-declaration-mb1279\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-emergency-declaration-mb1279\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Climate Emergency Declaration Movement Update\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-04T20:35:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-emergency-declaration-mb1279\/\"},\"wordCount\":463,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-emergency-declaration-mb1279\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/climate-emergency.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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