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Climate strike in Dublin September 2019 Photo: Niall Sargent
News

Next “real battle zone” for climate targets will be sectoral emissions

26 October 2021  The next battle for meeting national climate targets will come down to who gets the biggest “slice of the emissions cake” one of Ireland’s leading climate scientists has said.  Speaking to The Green News in the wake of the Climate Change Advisory Council issuing its carbon budget Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 2 yearsOctober 26, 2021 ago
News

The Climate Action Bill recently became law. Now what?

4 August 2021 Climate campaigners have worked for years in Ireland to see this kind of legislation enacted. Once proposed by the Government, the Bill went through months of campaigning, debating, and amendment-adding. Now that the Climate Action Bill was signed into law just two weeks ago, what do we Read more…

By admin, 2 yearsAugust 4, 2021 ago
Industrial Emissions Photo: Dirk Duckhorn
Opinion

Carbon cheques, emissions caps and climate justice

January 14th, 2019 As someone who has campaigned for years for carbon cheques to be distributed per capita in order to compensate for the increased costs brought about by carbon taxation, I’m excited that this is seriously being considered as an option in Ireland now. Mr Varadkar and others have Read more…

By admin, 5 yearsJanuary 14, 2019 ago
Industrial Emissions Photo: Dirk Duckhorn
Climate Change

Committee told current climate policy has Ireland ‘going backwards’

September 13th, 2018 The policy choices of recent governments have left Ireland “going backwards” in terms of tackling rising emissions, the chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) said yesterday. Speaking before the new Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action, Professor John Fitzgerald warned that we are facing a Read more…

By Niall Sargent, 5 yearsSeptember 13, 2018 ago
Climate Change

NASA places 2017 as second warmest year on record

January 19th, 2017 The Earth’s global surface temperature in 2017 was the second warmest on record since 1880, according to the latest NASA data released today. According to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the 2017 figures are in line with the “long-term warming trend”. 2016 remains Read more…

By Niall Sargent, 6 yearsJanuary 19, 2018 ago
Climate Change

Global experts selected for critical IPCC climate change reports

August 18th, 2017 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has invited over 200 experts from countries on each continent to prepare two separate special reports on how climate change will impact critical aspects of the Earth. The reports will document existing scientific knowledge and the linkages between climate change Read more…

By Shane O'Reilly, 6 yearsAugust 18, 2017 ago
Climate Change

ANALYSIS: Leaked report shows ‘real’ climate change impacts at odds with Trump’s ‘fake’ news rhetoric

August 11th, 2017 A leaked federal climate science report reveals how serious the impacts of climate change have already been in the US and will give Trump and his administration a new headache. The 673-page report was prepared by 50 leading scientists from 13 federal agencies – including the National Read more…

By Shane O'Reilly, 6 yearsAugust 11, 2017 ago
Climate Change

Three years and six goals to meet targets in the Paris Climate Agreement

July 10th, 2017 A grouping of climate change experts has published six goals that must be achieved by 2020 in order to meet the targets set out in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. In a letter published in the journal Nature, the authors and co-signatories – represented by eminent scientists, Read more…

By Shane O'Reilly, 6 yearsJuly 10, 2017 ago
Climate Change

All new Volvo cars to be electric or hybrid from 2019

July 6th, 2017 Volvo will only produce fully electric or hybrid cars from 2019, making it the first mainstream car manufacturer to commit to a total phase out of cars solely powered by internal combustion engines. This may well be a landmark moment and one of the clearest a signs Read more…

By Shane O'Reilly, 6 yearsJuly 6, 2017 ago
News

Legislation needed to protect European soil, new EU study finds

A new report published by the European Parliament’s committee responsible for scrutinising the European Commission’s agricultural policies has highlighted the threats facing soils across Europe. The report – prepared by academic experts from Wageningen University, Aarhus University and the University of Cordoba – was presented to the European Parliament on Read more…

By Shane O'Reilly, 6 yearsJune 27, 2017 ago

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