"climate emergency" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: climate emergencies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~|climate emergencies}} climate emergency (countable and uncountable, plural climate emergencies)
  1. The dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Climate change Synonyms: climate crisis Translations (dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage): klimaatkrisis (Afrikaans), 氣候危機 (Chinese Mandarin), 气候危机 (qìhòu wēijī) (Chinese Mandarin), goredhom hin [masculine] (Cornish), ilmastohätätila (Finnish), Klimanotstand [masculine] (German), klímavészhelyzet (Hungarian), krisis iklim (Indonesian), darurat iklim (Indonesian), éigeandáil aeráide [feminine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-climate_emergency-en-noun-WRap6itx Disambiguation of Climate change: 96 4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 81 19 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 74 26 Disambiguation of 'dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage': 96 4
  2. (countable) An official recognition that such a situation exists. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-climate_emergency-en-noun-PTMs7~zL

Inflected forms

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