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名詞

climate emergency (countable and uncountable, plural climate emergencies)

1. The dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage.

   Hypernyms: ecocrisis < crisis, emergency < problem

   Synonym: climate crisis

   • 2021 January 13, Phoebe Weston, “Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption”, in The Guardian‎:

     The effects of the climate emergency are more evident than biodiversity loss, but still, society is failing to cut emissions, the paper argues. If people understood the magnitude of the crises, changes in politics and policies could match the gravity of the threat.

2. (countable) An official recognition that such a situation exists.

   Hypernyms: state of emergency, emergency

   Coordinate term: public health emergency

   • 2019 May 3, Lindsay Brown, “Climate change: What is a climate emergency?”, in BBC News‎:

     Dozens of local areas have copied Carla's motion and declared climate emergencies including Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Bath.

派生した語

• → German: Klimanotstand (calque)