23 November 2021 If you’ve been following The Green News, you know that I’ve been on the road this month covering COP26. I was in throngs of protests, I was getting whatever photos I could crouching on a footpath. I Read more
23 November 2021 Air quality was above World Health Organisation guidelines for over 50 monitoring sites across the country in 2020, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In its annual air quality report, the body found that while overall air Read more
16 November 2021 The Minister for the Environment believes that imports of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) will not be needed to meet energy security needs, according to an answer he gave to an Oireachtas Committee today. Speaking before the Joint Read more
12 November 2021 Protests continued outside the COP26 venue in Glasgow today as international climate negotiations are down to the wire just inside. Demonstrators from the COP26 coalition, Fridays for Future International and Extinction Rebellion gathered at the entrance to Read more
12 November 2021 Neal Huddon-Cossar was prepared for anything to happen on Tuesday night. A campaigner with the Gasativist Collective, his organisation joined forces with Shale Must Fall and Climate Camp Scotland to project climate crisis-related warnings and demands onto Read more
12 November 2021 It’s a big day at COP26 in Glasgow as we all know – the second draft of the final text is out and who knows how long the negotiations will go on for. But we wanted to Read more
11 November 2021 Ireland has joined an international initiative to bring an end to oil and gas production today as the COP26 conference comes down to its final days in Glasgow. The Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance (BOGA), co-chaired by Read more
10 November 2021 Activists are continuing to push for robust climate outcomes in the draft final text of the COP26 negotiations in Glasgow as the conference comes down to its final days. A draft version of the conference’s outcome was Read more
9 November 2021 Members of the Indigenous Peoples Articulation of Brazil (APIB) gathered outside the gates of entry to the COP26 climate conference and called repeatedly for the Brazilian government to demarcate their land. Their calls come after the international Read more
8 November 2021 As international climate negotiations enter their second week in Glasgow, demonstrators remain committed to continued protests across the city. Members of Extinction Rebellion gathered for a rally outside the event campus hosting the COP26 climate conference, which Read more