New Zealand's Ardern set to declare climate emergency

FILE PHOTO: The town of Glenorchy on Lake Wakatipu and Otago river New Zealand March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Henning Gloystein/File Photo

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's government is to declare a climate emergency in a symbolic step to increase pressure for action to combat global warming.

The government will put forward a motion to declare the emergency next Wednesday, the government said as parliament reconvened after a general election won by Ardern's party.