<span style="color: #222222;">Ireland has declared climate emergency in their country, to be the second country after Britain to do so. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">An amendment to a parliamentary report declaring a climate emergency and calling on parliament to examine how the Irish government can improve its response to the issue of biodiversity loss was accepted without a vote late Thursday.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> Irish Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, who moved the amendment, called the decision historic. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Britain's parliament became the first in the world to declare a climate emergency, passing the largely symbolic motion on May 1. The step followed 11 days of street protests in London by the Extinction Rebellion environmental campaign group. </span><br />''  <br />