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New York City, NY - New York City may soon make history as the largest city in the world to declare a climate emergency. On Monday, June 24th at 12pm, citizens of New York City will rally on the steps of City Hall in support of Resolution 0864-2019 (“Resolution declaring a climate emergency and calling for immediate emergency mobilization to restore a safe climate.”) The NYC City Council Committee on Environmental Protection will hear testimony for the resolution, which was introduced by Council Member Ben Kallos and Environmental Protection Committee Chair Costa Constantinides. This declaration is a critical first step toward acknowledging the Climate and Ecological Crisis and moving towards a just transition for New York City to become carbon neutral.



October 2018’s IPCC Special Report on Global Warming shows that implementation must begin immediately - only rapid, drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and systemic changes will prevent global climate catastrophe.


“This declaration of a climate emergency by the New York City Council is an urgently needed move toward speaking truthfully in public about the undeniable empirical reality of global climate breakdown,” said Rory Varrato, spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion.“In the face of this grim reality, major world cities can and must show how this dire planetary crisis can be addressed through local action. By doing so, these cities will become catalysts for the kinds of just, transformational changes we must enact if organized human life on Earth is to persist beyond the short term.”



The impacts of further planetary heating include droughts, food and water shortage, crop failures, mass displacement, and increasingly powerful storms, wildfires and floods both in the US and abroad. Further, a May 6th United Nations report predicts the extinction of over one million plant and animal species due to human caused climate change and habitat loss. This will impact every species on this planet, including human beings, in ways we cannot yet predict.