April 3rd, 2020 Fourteen of the 20 biggest polluting airlines saw their emissions rise in 2019, according to official EU …
Car industry wants EU to relax CO2 targets due to Covid-19
April 2nd, 2020 The automobile industry is pushing the European Commission to relax car industry CO2 targets in the wake …
Short-term emissions drop nothing to celebrate
March 19th, 2020 For the past few days as the COVID-19 pandemic upends global routines, social media has been flooded …
Trump resort refused permission for Doonbeg wall
March 18th, 2020 The Doonbeg golf resort owned by US President Donald Trump has been refused permission by An Bord …
Covid-19 and the climate: key impacts so far
March 13th, 2020 Earlier this month, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said the recent decline in particulate matter (PM2.5) levels …
2019 was second warmest on record, WMO data
March 11th, 2020 2019 was the second warmest year on record and finished up with an average global temperature of …
Legal challenge to Project Ireland 2040 opens today
March 10th, 2020 A legal challenge to the Government’s adoption of Project Ireland 2040 on grounds of climate change concerns …
Irish anti-fracking activist meets UN to discuss global fracking ban
March 6th, 2020 An Irish anti-fracking campaigner joined other activists, healthcare professionals and NGOs in New York this week to …
Commission launches awaited EU climate law proposals
March 5th, 2020 The European Commission has outlined its long-awaited proposal to enshrine the EU’s 2050 climate neutral commitment in …
Major policy and monetary support needed to improve our climate record, EU finds
March 2nd, 2020 The European Commission has found that the Climate Action Plan could be a “breakthrough” in the low …