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Ireland became the second country to declare a climate emergency on Friday in response to intensifying ecological threats around the world, according to RTE.
The nation followed the lead of the United Kingdom, which was pressured to declare a climate emergency by the protest movement "Extinction Rebellion" that seeks to take radical action to halt climate change and the decline of biodiversity. But Irish politicians said that the new measure would be meaningless without concrete actions."Declaring an emergency means absolutely nothing unless there is action to back it up," Eamon Ryan, the leader of the Green Party, told RTE. "That means the government having to do things they don't want to do."
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