We are banking on costly, speculative ‘negative emissions technologies’ to make climate strategies add up
Thinking in a Climate Emergency: Renewables, energy efficiency and ending fossil-fuel reliance do help cut CO2
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Only two years left to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees target, scientists warn
World is currently on track for 2.7 degrees of global heating and a ramping up of extreme weather
Key Paris climate pact target at 1.5 degrees ‘too high for polar ice sheets’
Mass loss in ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica is the biggest driver of global sea-level rise
Pope Francis’s green legacy is his radical encyclical Laudato Si’ that upended centuries of Catholic teaching
Published in 2015, Laudato Si’ spoke of our serious moral responsibility to protect the planet
The reality of life at ‘just’ 1.5 degrees of warming
While politicians across Europe skirt their climate commitments, millions of people are already at risk from increasingly chaotic and dangerous weather events
How Donald Trump ripped up US climate action plans
At a Time of Climate Crisis: The US president has been making false and misleading claims on wind energy for nearly a decade
Record heat of last year unlikely to be a one-off, scientists warn
World may already be in period where Paris climate pact target of keeping temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees is breached sooner than anticipated
Climate summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’ in addressing crisis, say former political leaders and scientists
Large scale of Cops summits now ‘beyond crazy’ says key participant, who could only justify flying to event because of being directly involved in scientific work
Global South must be saved from fossil fuels and other climate-harming practices
Ethiopia is among many countries suffering hunger, poverty and misery due to the Global North’s destruction of the planet and its banks financing damaging agricultural programmes and fossil fuel expansion
If warnings about Atlantic ocean circulation are correct, Irish people could become climate migrants
New studies say a dramatic drop in temperatures here could happen a lot sooner than previously feared
Climate change: Earth bakes in heat 1.5 degrees above preindustrial average for 12 months, data shows
Temperature results are a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the Earth’s climate, says the Copernicus Climate Change Service
The ‘vile’ abuse of Eamon Ryan has chilling effect on climate action
Climate denial content has increased, undermining climate solutions and casting doubt on climate science
How do we cut through the ‘white noise’ of climate change?
Helen Shaw makes the case for the power of imagination and storytelling
Climate Cops hitting peak capacity may prompt scale-back of UN negotiating process
Logistical problems coinciding with concerns about not fit for purpose decision making with deck stacked heavily on side of carbon polluters
Global temperatures to rise at least 2.5 degrees this century, with catastrophic results, leading scientists predict
‘Just the beginning’: Some experts envisage ‘semi-dystopian’ future, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms, survey finds
Could scrambling the weather or sucking carbon out of the air help solve the climate crisis?
Technological solutions could be transformative in containing global temperatures and saving civilisation. But getting it wrong could exacerbate the crisis
No, it’s not the economy, stupid. Only one issue matters now
Global temperatures have breached what is regarded as the red line of calamity - 1.5 degrees - yet we’re still focused on all the wrong things
We can no longer ignore the reality - our climate is changing and we are not prepared
Extreme weather events like flooding and storms have exposed an adaptation deficit in Ireland. There’s no time to lose
Economics of climate change must be rooted in real-world scenarios
Doubtful if any economist would argue in 2024 that carbon taxes are the only solution to climate change
If world is to decarbonise, climate policy must be just and deploy new framework, researchers suggest
Climate justice is about ‘how we transition to cleaner ways of living, different impacts on various groups of people’
How are storms named and is Ireland seeing more than before?
Storms are occurring with a frequency unprecedented since storm naming began in 2015
What would a roadmap to sustainable aviation look like? For a start don’t make things worse
Survival of the aviation industry depends on whether it can scale up to use sustainable biofuels, low-emissions hydrogen, and derivatives rapidly, and contain the growth in demand
Why is the Irish Government opposing a landmark case by young climate campaigners?
Six Portuguese campaigners claim their human rights are being violated by climate inaction. Ireland is vigorously contesting their claims
Research suggests the Gulf Stream may collapse sooner than anticipated. What then?
New modelling makes bold claims but all scientists agree a collapse of the system should be avoided at all costs
Climate science shows we have options, and that we can and must change
The future is not prescribed, and fatalism is not an option
Global emissions at all-time high and set to cause ‘unprecedented’ warming, scientists warn
‘At no point should we throw up our hands in despair. Every saved emission is a reduced climate impact’
Global emissions at ‘all-time high’ causing unprecedented rate of global warming, scientists warn
Latest data from leading Irish and UK climatologists coincides with climate negotiations in advance of ‘global stocktake’ at Cop28
Climate action should transform freight and logistics, but are we prepared for it?
Thinking in a Climate Emergency: transport-related emissions are rising sharply, yet Ireland is not acting to provide for the electrification of freight
There must be no slowdown in the drive for electric vehicles
At a Time of Climate Crisis: Despite their drawbacks, EV deployment must speed up
EU leaders in Brussels to talk Brexit, Belarus and banking as evictions ban controversy rumbles on
Inside Politics Digest: Coalition will try to move the agenda on from evictions ban, but issue will roll into another week
Ireland’s stuttering climate performance brought into focus by IPCC report
‘Big implementation gap’ and lack of political will are main obstacles to rapid decarbonisation
Synthesis report prompts international calls for scaled-up actions by governments
‘All of the climate parameters are moving in totally the wrong direction’ - WMO
Ireland can help stave off climate breakdown but only with ‘dash to low-carbon economy and society’, says climate coalition
Campaign group calls for urgent political leadership to secure sustainable, fossil-free future for all
Q&A: What is the IPCC report and what needs to be done to address the climate crisis?
Synthesis report analyses almost 10 years of climate science and most likely scenarios facing the world this century
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