UK understands that “the house is on fire” (WK-intern) - Today, the UK Parliament voted to declare a “climate emergency” and became the first in Europe to clearly underline the urgency to address climate change. The vote in the House of Commons came as an answer to wide-spread citizen mobilisations in the UK which urged decision makers to step up climate action in an unprecedented way. In reaction to today’s vote, Wendel Trio, Director of CAN Europe said: “We congratulate the UK Parliament for recognising the urgency to act and putting climate change on the top of their agenda. Obviously this needs to be