January 24th, 2020 General Election 2020 must be the ‘Climate Election’. As the global climate and biodiversity emergency deepens, it is surely inconceivable that Irish politics can continue to ignore and sideline the greatest crisis in human history. After all, ignorance is no longer an excuse. Yet, this is manifestly Read more…
January 20th, 2020 Ireland’s natural world is in appalling shape and needs the full backing of the public to push election candidates to bring it back from the brink, a leading nature conservation group has warned. Launching its Manifesto for Nature this afternoon, BirdWatch Ireland (BWI) starkly laid out the Read more…
January 20th, 2020 A petition calling for a standalone climate debate on RTE in the run up to general election has gathered over 1,600 signatures in just over a week. Signatories are calling for a televised debate focused solely on the climate crisis in front of an audience largely made Read more…
May 27th, 2019 The green wave has spread across Europe, with the Greens/EFA party expected to see a 50 per cent bump in seats in the European Parliament. The counting of tallies across the bloc indicates that the green alliance of MEPS are set to win 75 seat, an increase Read more…