Climate emergency declarations are amongst the strongest statement from governments in the face of global warming. At least 1217 local governments have so far declared a climate emergency; however, on a national government level, only seven such declarations have been made, most of which were in 2019. The exponential rise of local governments declaring a climate emergency is significant, and developing an understanding of how these responses are operationalised is critical. Previous studies indicate that local government practitioners conceptualise climate change as a complex emergency but tend to suggest ‘business as usual’ responses, unfit to deal with this complexity. Since these governments around the world have declared climate emergencies, it is unknown if the newly released climate emergency plans still tend to suggest such ‘business as usual’ response approaches or if we are now seeing the making of a more complex response to the complex threat of climate change. In this paper, we review two local governments' climate emergency plans: Auckland (New Zealand) and the City of Darebin (Melbourne, Australia). Our research develops a conceptual understanding of climate emergency mode (10 critical key attributes are articulated) and we reveal through the review of our two cases that this understanding is embedded in policy documents to varying degrees but give little explicit attention to processes of prioritisation or economic mobilisation. This research contributes to an initial understanding of a climate emergency mode in governance systems and provides a way forward from business as normal to a complex emergency response for climate change.

面对全球变暖，气候紧急声明是政府最强烈的声明之一。到目前为止，至少有1217个地方政府宣布了气候紧急状态；但是，在国家政府层面，仅发表了7篇这样的声明，其中大部分是在2019年发表的。地方政府以指数级的速度宣布气候紧急情况意义重大，因此，了解如何应对这些措施至关重要。先前的研究表明，地方政府从业人员将气候变化概念化为复杂的紧急情况，但倾向于建议“一切照旧”的应对措施，不适合应对这种复杂性。由于世界各地的这些政府都宣布了气候紧急情况，尚不清楚新发布的气候应急计划是否仍倾向于建议采取“一切照旧”的应对方法，或者我们现在是否正在看到对气候变化的复杂威胁做出更复杂的应对。在本文中，我们回顾了两个地方政府的气候应急计划：奥克兰（新西兰）和达里宾市（澳大利亚墨尔本）。我们的研究发展了对气候应急模式的概念性理解（阐明了10个关键的关键属性），并且通过回顾我们的两个案例，我们发现这种理解在不同程度上被嵌入了政策文件中，但却很少明确关注优先次序或经济过程。动员。