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Path to Paris The UN climate summit takes place in Paris from November 30th to December 11th, 2015. As the build-up to the event continues, The Irish Times is providing extensive coverage of the issues involved.
Crowds took to the streets despite the anti-terrorism state of emergency rules that forbid large gatherings. Photograph: EPA Paris agreement ‘monumental success for the planet’
  • Environment
  • December 14, 2015

Climate change strategy seen as beginning of the end of planet’s dependence on fossil fuels

A couple wear masks in a shopping district of Beijing amid heavy smog after the city issued its first ever red alert for air pollution. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Beijing issues first pollution red alert as smog engulfs capital
  • Asia-Pacific
  • December 8, 2015

Schools closed until Thursday and measures put in place to improve air quality

Planet Earth: The time to act is now
  • Editorial
  • November 30, 2015

Paris climate change summit has the ingredients for a deal

Demanding action on climate change: activists at St Peter’s Square, in the Vatican, urge a legally binding global agreement at COP21. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Is harming the environment a sin?
  • Environment
  • November 28, 2015

As world leaders prepare for the UN climate summit, religious figures are meeting in Ireland to consider how Pope Francis is influencing the politics of climate change

IBack to the future: ‘The Austrian system is more than 150 years old and began with steam train and horse and cart. With our new technology . . . we can offer a better experience,’ says Nick Blake Bike-train-bike couriers cut carbon emissions by 99%
  • Energy & Resources
  • November 27, 2015

Innovative courier firm uses bicycles instead of trucks to link with high-speed trains

COP21: Ireland has the advantage of exploiting renewable energy and not producing fossil fuels. Photograph: John Giles/PA Wire Irish companies bet their bottom dollar on the green agenda
  • Energy & Resources
  • November 27, 2015

Decarbonisation is not only good for the environment, it’s good for the bottom line

Nicolas Hulot: President François Hollande’s special envoy for the climate and a chief organiser of COP21: “The real question is will it be half a success, a full success or an absolute success?”Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images) COP21: the tipping point for global warming?
  • Europe
  • November 27, 2015

Hulot, French special envoy for the climate, says UN conference is already a success

Environmental problems have a natural attention cycle among readers and climate change has probably gone through this attention cycle several times. Photograph: Getty Images/Stockphoto Why the media doesn’t care about climate change
  • Opinion
  • November 26, 2015

News likes unambiguous, discrete events, straight-forward, one-off happenings rather than long-term social trends

Global annual average temperatures anomalies (relative to 1961-1990) based on an average of three global temperature data set. Image: World Meteorologicl Organization. 2015 likely to be the warmest year ever recorded
  • Science
  • November 25, 2015

New records for strongest tropical storms, warmest ocean temperatures and driest year

A young boy fills his cup from a water tanker in Coronation, Johannesburg, as South Africa experiences its worst drought in decades. EPA/KIM LUDBROOK South African drought gives a glimpse of what future climate change may bring
  • Africa
  • November 25, 2015

Agriculture hit as country suffers worst shortages since the 1930s

Security staff at work at the site of the COP21 climate summit at Le Bourget, near Paris. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters UN climate summit to go ahead protected by 30,000 police
  • Europe
  • November 24, 2015

Civil and military forces deployed to guard the venue where 140 world leaders will meet next week

Tangier Island, Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay; The island is just 4ft above sea level so it is vulnerable to the vast expanse of water around it. Photograph: Simon Carswell Virginia islanders dispute climate change as water rises
  • Environment
  • November 23, 2015

Locals see island’s problems as generations-old loss of land due to erosion

The UN conference on climate change in Paris from November 30th-December 11th provides a greater cause for optimism than any previous climate summit. Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images. Looking for a beacon of hope on climate change in Paris
  • Opinion
  • November 23, 2015

The Cop21 summit offers a truly historic opportunity for a global energy revolution

Photograph: Thinkstock/Getty Images Irish abroad: Do you live in a region affected by climate change?
  • Generation Emigration
  • November 18, 2015

The Irish Times is looking to speak with Irish people in countries impacted by storms, drought and floods

A man attaches a banne to a statue at Place de la Republique near sites of the deadly attacks in Paris on Sunday. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters Air strikes on Syria echo fatally back home in Paris
  • Opinion
  • November 15, 2015

There’s a straight line between Bush’s invasion of Iraq and France’s torment

Global warming: “We are the last generation who can limit the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions,” says Bernie Connolly of Cork Environmental Forum. Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty UN Climate Change Conference: ‘I will be embarrassed to be Irish in Paris’
  • Environment
  • November 14, 2015

Trócaire, Oxfam Ireland and Friends of the Earth will be watching as world leaders meet for the Cop21 summit. They’re already disappointed by the Government’s ‘inaction’

The further evidence that time running out for decisive action on climate
  • Editorial
  • November 12, 2015

Paris agreement needs to be backed by rigorous transparency and review mechanisms

Christiana Figueres, Manuel Pulgar Vidal (centre) and Laurent Fabius: Recent reports published have driven home the gravity of the climate change situation. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters COP21 organisers confident of getting agreement
  • World
  • November 11, 2015

Foreign and environment ministers have made progress towards a climate change accord

A woman wearing a mask is reflected in a glass panel on a smoggy day in Beijing on Wednesday. Beijing’s environmental protection bureau warned of poor air quality that could continue in the coming days. Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA As coal use falls, China still issues permits for coal-fired power plants
  • Asia-Pacific
  • November 11, 2015

Blamed for dire pollution, coal makes up two-thirds of China’s energy consumption

According to crop modelling, which helps to estimate yields when certain weather and soil conditions are applied, drought will decimate staple foods under a low mitigation future, especially important ones such as maize Climate change is hot topic for Africa as temperatures rise
  • Africa
  • November 10, 2015

A deal at UN conference in Paris is crucial for continent’s future

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