10 December 2020 Climate groups have warned that the recently published Ag Climatise roadmap will fail to deliver the necessary agriculture emission cuts. The blueprint for the largest emitting sector achieving climate neutrality was published yesterday by the Department of Agriculture and envisions a “climate neutral food system compatible with Read more…
February 15th, 2019 Meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement will help to boost the EU’s economy and increase employment, a new report has found. The new report published by Eurofound, a Dublin-based EU agency, estimates that the low-carbon economy model of the Paris Agreement would contribute to a one Read more…
December 20th, 2018 For two weeks at the start of December, the international community gathered – as they do each year – to agree on how to deal with the impending climate catastrophe. The talks this year happened against a world which has darkened considerably since the Paris Agreement was 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 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…
October 8th, 2018 Rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes across all sectors of society can limit global warming to below the 1.5°C threshold, leading climate scientists have said. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest special report – Global Warming of 1.5 °C – released this morning, it is Read more…
September 26th, 2018 The proposed development of a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Shannon Estuary flies in the face of the State’s commitment to tackling climate change, the Oireachtas has heard. Speaking on the Dail floor last week, People Before Profit’s Brid Smith questioned how the proposed Shannon LNG Read more…
August 7th, 2018 Scientists have warned that the planet is at risk of entering a Hothouse Earth scenario where large parts of the world become uninhabitable even if the Paris Agreement are met. In 2015, the Paris Agreement was signed to maintain global average temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial Read more…
July 16th, 2018 The existential threat of climate change has left the world standing at a crossroads for “our very humanity”, Mary Robinson said at a UN conference last weekend. Speaking at a side meeting of the ongoing high-level UN forum on the Sustainable Development Goals in New York, Mary Read more…
