The former Irish president described the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as “very relevant to our world”
The former Irish president described the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as “very relevant to our world”
The composer scores a new BBC series about the natural world.
MOREAmazon, which ships millions of packages a year to shoppers' doorsteps, has announced plans to make half of all its shipments carbon neutral by 2030.
MOREIreland’s butterflies and bumblebees are dying off at an even faster rate than the catastrophic global decline.
MOREFor generations, we ignored warnings about our impact on the great bounty of the oceans.
MOREActivists rallied outside Tate Britain and on The Strand.
MOREThe event is part of the public consultation process for Dublin City Council's Draft Climate Action Change Plan.
MOREMounted police in the UK ushered demonstrators off the roads and back onto the pavement.
MOREA passionate crowd of school children have demonstrated in Belfast to demand action on climate change.
MOREThousands of schoolchildren in the UK are walking out of class as part of the Youth Strike 4 Climate movement.
MOREYouth Strike 4 Climate organisers say strikes are taking place in 60 towns and cities across the UK.
MOREThe actor avoided saying Donald Trump’s name at the World Government Summit but targeted the US president within the opening moments of his speech.
MOREWhen the financial consequences finally sink in, people will — perhaps — start taking climate change more seriously and make the tough decisions needed, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.
MOREThe world’s fourth-largest economy has set 2038 as the deadline for reaching zero coal, not a moment too soon, say Johan Rockström and Owen Gaffney.
MOREThe World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said analysis of five leading international datasets showed the global average temperature last year was approximately 1C above pre-industrial levels of 1850-1900.
MOREFailure to tackle climate change in a speedy and effective way could lead to financial instability in Ireland, according to the governor of the Central Bank.
MOREIn recent weeks, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar expressed a new commitment to confronting climate change.
MOREMarches were held across the country as the teenagers said they had been left ‘a planet in bad shape’.
MOREIt is rare that a campaign is faulted for representing too many people but that, in essence, was one of the arguments against the group who took the State to court for failing to meet its climate change responsibilities.
MOREIn Eric Bogle’s great anti-war song ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ his narrator “lived the free life of the rover From the Murray’s green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over” before he was called, like hundreds of Irishmen, to fight at Gallipoli.
MOREAlthough the planet was slightly cooler last year, experts fear the warming trend is ‘stunningly clear’.
MOREThousands of students in Belgium have skipped school for the third week in a row and more than 30,000 swamped the centre of Brussels to demand better protection of the world's climate.
MOREIrish Examiner reporter, Caroline O'Doherty, was in court today as the Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) began their court action over the adequacy of the Government's plans to tackle climate breakdown.
MOREI wouldn't often say this, but a farmers’ representative stopped me in my tracks the other night.
MOREThe veteran broadcaster was accepting award at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
MOREIreland is complicit in human rights breaches in Colombia by buying coal from a mine accused of multiple abuses of local communities, campaigners say.
MORECampaigners say the government needs to act faster on issues around climate change.
MORE“I won’t have a vote for another seven years. But another seven years of greenhouse gas emissions will be a disaster.”
MORE‘The window for opportunity is closing. The decisions we take now will define the next century,’ Richard Bruton said.
MOREEven though it has provided high drama and, for a while at least, a perverse entertainment, in the grand, centuries-long scheme of things, Brexit matters little enough.
MOREClimate change could pose a threat to your morning coffee.
MOREA TD has claimed people who are giving up eating meat have never worked a hard day in their lives.
MOREIn one of his most provocative speeches, an early version of his recent warning of the accelerating threat climate change poses to our civilisation, David Attenborough spoke from Easter Island, a remote outcrop in the Pacific, 3,510km west of continental Chile.
MOREThe Government needs to make a resolution that 2019 will be the year we finally get serious about climate change.
MOREThe divestment follows the enactment of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018 which was signed into law by the President last month.
MOREOur world is changing. You, like me, may have been doing you’re darndest to look the other way and pretend it’s not.
MOREIrish households have the highest carbon emissions in Europe.
MOREWe are one of the only EU countries in which greenhouse gases are rising and we are likely to miss our 2020 targets, writes Cara Augustenborg.
MOREBy 2100 93% of all hatchlings of the sea-based species could be female because of rising global temperatures in West Africa
MOREOne of the shameless and all-so-revealing dodges used by Irish businesses, whose balance sheets might be constrained by a more responsible, by a more honest response to climate collapse, is that this is a small country that can’t really do much to turn the climate change tide.
MORELeo Varadkar said despite the poor performance meeting emission targets, Ireland led the way on recycling and renewable energy.
MORESingle-use plastics are to be phased out across all government departments and agencies before wider laws are introduced to completely ban throwaway products, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.
MORESarah Darwin said people needed to use ‘our great brains’ to find a sustainable way of living in the coming year.
MOREWith global waste generation set to increase by as much as 70% by 2050, the world must act swiftly to avoid a catastrophe, write Mahmoud Mohieldin, Sameh Wahba, and Silpa Kaza Mahmoud
MORE"With the world's climate taking a turn for the worse in 2018; this one hour Virgin Media News special takes a look back at the major Irish and international weather events that made national and global headlines throughout the year," states a press release ahead of the documentary which airs tonight at 10pm.
MOREBusiness leaders must co-operate with governments and communities to bring about sustainable development. Market power can drive social change, writes Paul Polman.
MOREThe Government’s recently published Annual Transition Statement 2018 has ignored the potential for cycling to reduce transport emissions (1). The legislation is designed to enable Ireland’s transition to a low carbon, climate resilient and environmentally sustainable economy by 2050.
MOREUniversity College Cork (UCC) has become the only university in Ireland to make the top 10 in a list of the ‘greenest’ universities in the world.
MOREThe summit on climate change in Katowice closed on a positive note — if any such conclusion can be reached on anything to do with our self-inflicted destruction of our world.
MOREThe UN talks were meant to provide firm guidelines for countries on how to transparently report their greenhouse gas emissions.
MOREIreland faces an "urgent need for action" to address reliance on fossil fuels which account for more than 90% of all energy use here.
MOREFossil fuels accounted for over 90% of all energy used in Ireland last year, according to a new report from the Sustainable Energy Authority Of Ireland.
MOREWe take many things once regarded as miraculous as everyday. We take almost unlimited access to TV channels for granted.
MOREThis is a proposal to try to reduce the carbon emissions and placate Brussels, before they apply fines, which will fall on citizens via taxes.
MOREThe findings heighten fears that ice loss could lead to rising sea levels.
MOREMany years ago, when the full scale of the institutionalised child sexual abuse became apparent, we recoiled in horror and shame.
MOREIreland is the worst performing country in the EU at tackling climate change, according to an international report.
MOREIreland placed 48th out of the 56 countries ranked on the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI).
MOREThanks to humankind the course of destruction of our environment has been set.
MOREEnvironmental improvements have already been noted since the transformation started in the city.
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