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Halifax councillors join Vancouver in declaring climate emergency
Halifax has become the second Canadian city to declare a climate emergency.
Council voted Tuesday to pass a mostly symbolic acknowledgment that climate change is a serious and urgent threat.
The municipality is unlikely to receive additional funds from the provincial or federal governments as a result, but will use the declaration to stress that climate change is real and how it might affect its climate change plan.