Saturday 21 May, 2022
No sector can yet say it is doing enough to fight the climate crisis, according to a climate ambassador.
One in every five deaths around the world in children under age 5 is caused by severe acute malnutrition, according to a new report.
Over the next six months, a citizens’ assembly will hear evidence and made recommendations for the good of Ireland’s biodiversity.
The Taoiseach said he is concerned not everyone “really gets a sense of how serious this is”.
As restrictions lifted in 2021, energy use and related emissions moved in the opposite direction of climate goals.
The activists demand that the British Government ends new oil and gas projects in the UK.
The research was led by the Hamilton Institute and ICARUS Climate Research Centre at Maynooth University.
Before now, researchers did not have a comprehensive picture of the risk to reptiles.
The amount of carbon emitted during construction will continue to increase to meet the homes target in the Housing For All plan.
Research has found that climate misinformation is usually produced by well-resourced organisations rather than at grassroots level.
A letter from the Climate Change Advisory Council said the war in Ukraine and energy crisis “further emphasises” the need to cut fossil fuel reliance.
It also calls for more investment in an all-island energy network and as more co-operation on tourism.
A motion to approve the budgets passed through the Dáil without a vote due to little opposition.
The latest IPCC report will likely emphasise the impetus on the world to cut greenhouse gas emissions to save the planet.
Read an extract from the latest edition of The Journal’s climate newsletter.
A rally closed off one side of Merrion Square in Dublin, as protesters gathered to demand urgent action to tackle climate change.
The campaigners are staging the action in response to an open letter from Extinction Rebellion Ukraine.
Aerial surveys showed coral bleaching at multiple reefs across a large area of the system.
The Board is also no longer required to present an annual progress report to Government.
Bleaching occurs when healthy corals become stressed by spikes in ocean temperatures.
The Journal spoke to Irish MEPs about what they believe must be done to reduce energy dependency on Russia while also protecting the climate and supply.
Irish climate activist Jessica Dunne says she has learned a lot since the massive global protest three years ago today.
The EU’s Standing Rapporteur on Ukraine says Europe should impose an embargo on the import of Russian fossil fuels.
Europe, along with most of the rest of the world, will be impacted by temperature increases, water scarcity, sea level rise and more floods.
The report said nations spend too much time and money fighting fires rather than preventing them.
The jet stream brought the three storms to Ireland and the UK last week.
Only 6% of the energy required for heating and cooling in Ireland came from renewable sources in 2020.
Micheál Martin joined other leaders at the One Ocean summit in France this morning.
A team in England more than doubled a 1997 record for sustained energy generated.
More money will be available to foot some of the cost for people to install heat pumps, insulation and solar panels.
The Agriculture Committee will hear from participants on hedgerows and the draft CAP Strategic Plan.
A Cork TD said the move has taken locals “very, very much by surprise”.
The plan aims to reduce traffic congestion but critics say it would hurt Ireland’s climate objectives and fail to solve the problem.
Senator Alice-Mary Higgins said the proposed budgets “can be strengthened” but TD Brian Leddin said more ambition is not “realistic”.
Northern Ireland does not have its own climate laws but falls under UK-wide targets.
Campaigners have been waiting for the assembly to be called since a biodiversity emergency was declared in 2019.
At least five Irish MEPs said last month that they plan to oppose the contentious proposal.
The climate risk is even worse for coral reefs than set out in a UN assessment in 2018, a study has found.
