Southwestern Japan city declares climate emergency, 1st in country english.kyodonews.net

KYODO NEWS - Sep 26, 2019 - 15:49 | Lifestyle, All, JapanA southwestern Japan city on Thursday became the country's first municipality to declare a "climate emergency," joining more than 1,000 local governments across the world resolved to tackle climate change.
The city of Iki in Nagasaki Prefecture said in the declaration that natural disasters and other phenomena caused by global warming pose a "significant threat" and vowed to lower its carbon dioxide emissions.
An island city with a population of 26,500, Iki said the decision was prompted by unprecedented weather events in the municipality and elsewhere.
The city said it will urge other local governments in Japan to make similar declarations.
(A causeway that appears only during low tide leading to Kojima Shrine, a Shinto site on an islet off Iki Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, is seen on Sept. 14, 2014.)