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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…