Climate emergency declarations already cover 14% of the global population

US president Joe Biden is under pressure to declare a national climate emergency and free up federal resources to address the global temperature rise. The move would put the US in the company of 18 other nations, and the EU, that have made the dire declaration.

Already 14% of the world’s population is under some form of formal climate emergency acknowledgment, according to Cedamia, an organization started by environmental campaigners to track the declarations.