Quakers pave way for climate emergency declarations

As part of a news round-up, Rebecca Hardy looks at Quaker backing for council's around the country declaring climate emergencies

by Rebecca Hardy 3rd January 2020

As 2018 drew to a close with the ominous warnings of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report tolling in people’s ears – that the human race had just twelve years to limit the most devastating impacts of global warming – a steady wave of councils kicked the year off by pledging to go carbon-neutral over the next decade.