<p>Oxford Dictionaries has named 'climate emergency' as its Word of the Year for 2019. </p>.<p>The word is defined as “a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it”. </p>.<p>The term 'climate emergency' has been used by activists and pro-climate action politicians to signify the need for urgent action to tackle climate change. </p>.<p>The use of the term “climate emergency” increased by a hundredfold since 2018, according to data collected in the Oxford Corpus, a database containing hundreds of millions of words of written English and cited in a <em>New York Times</em> report.</p>
<p>Oxford Dictionaries has named 'climate emergency' as its Word of the Year for 2019. </p>.<p>The word is defined as “a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it”. </p>.<p>The term 'climate emergency' has been used by activists and pro-climate action politicians to signify the need for urgent action to tackle climate change. </p>.<p>The use of the term “climate emergency” increased by a hundredfold since 2018, according to data collected in the Oxford Corpus, a database containing hundreds of millions of words of written English and cited in a <em>New York Times</em> report.</p>