December 16th, 2019 On Thursday, the official penultimate day of COP25, the energy in the conference halls seemed low as negotiations across the board were blocked. Tensions were also high owing to the UN’s reaction to a peaceful civil society protest led by Latin American indigenous voices inside the COP Read more…
December 13th, 2019 Youth activists are currently holding their weekly climate strike inside the UN climate talks in Madrid to highlight the slow progress in setting more ambitious climate targets. As the conference draws to a close this week, negotiators are clamouring to find common ground to ensure emisisons targets Read more…
December 8th, 2019 The annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change rotates around the continents to minimise travel and thus the carbon footprint involved and was this year due to be held in the Chilean capital of Santiago. However, after a period Read more…
November 6th, 2019 Civil society groups have called on the State to support increase EU climate ambition and to ensure greater commitment for international climate finance at next month’s UN Climate Change Conference in Spain. Speaking before the Joint Committee on Climate Action this afternoon, representatives from Trócaire, Friends of Read more…
