December 10th, 2018 Ireland’s ranking as the worst in Europe for climate action points to a widening gap between State rhetoric and a genuine will to tackle climate change, Irish activists and NGOs have warned. Speaking on the ground from the COP24 climate summit in Katowice, Poland, Irish delegates responded this Read more…
December 8th, 2018 There was concern coming into COP24 that negotiators wouldn’t be able to complete the task given to them and agree on a rulebook for achieving Paris Agreement targets to limit warming to 1.5. Following on from Bangkok, where negotiators didn’t manage to finish, there was concern that Read more…
December 5th, 2018 The Government is “sleepwalking” Irish citizens into an unrecognizable and highly dangerous future, the world was told today at the global climate summit in Poland. Speaking today at a COP24 session on climate litigation, Clodagh Daly gave the stark warning as she outlined the case brought by Read more…
December 4th, 2018 The highest weather-related losses ever were recorded last year, with poorer countries baring the brunt of the damage, a new report has found. According to the Global Climate Risk Index published today by Germanwatch at the COP24 climate summit, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka and Dominica were the hardest Read more…
December 3rd, 2018 The world’s youth must lead in pushing for climate action as our politicians are “behaving like children” the 15-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said today. Speaking during the opening day of COP24, she said that she did not come to Poland to ask world leaders to Read more…
December 3rd, 2018 The collapse of our civilisation and the extinction of much of the natural world are “on the horizon” if we don’t take concrete climate action now, Sir David Attenborough warned world leaders today. Sir Attenborough was speaking at the COP24 opening ceremony this morning to launch the Read more…
December 3rd, 2018 The annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) opened this morning with the vital goal of finalising guidelines on how to implement the landmark Paris Agreement. Over the next two weeks, nations will meet in Katowice, Poland to agree on guidelines to fulfil the Paris Agreement to drive Read more…
The Convergence Sustainable Living Festival – a fruitful space for sharing stories and conversations imagining a more sustainable Ireland From 25th May to the 9th June 2018, Cultivate, the Sustainable Ireland Cooperative, celebrated its 18th Convergence festival focusing on community-led approaches for a more sustainable Ireland. Since its beginning in Read more…
