Time to grasp opportunity in the electricity sector, says Climate Change Advisory Council chairwoman Marie Donnelly
Climate Change Advisory Council
Is Ireland’s new climate action plan the blueprint needed to transform the country within decades?
‘The sooner we become independent from fossil fuels, the better it will be for our health and the environment,’ says climate council
Climate rankings ‘disappointing’ but indications of improved national performance in 2024, says Marie Donnelly
‘My fear is the national narrative is making climate change to the 95 per cent of people who are not in agriculture somebody else’s problem,’ climatologist Peter Thorne says
Expenditure over the next seven years will be driven by electrification of heating and transport and retrofitting of homes and businesse
Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan secures amendment as way to raise climate finance for vulnerable countries and assist adoption of renewables
Cars are getting bigger and heavier, which is offsetting efficiency gains from technology improvements, says UCC academic
Wildfires in north America and southern Europe, storms of hailstones the size of tennis balls in Italy and flooding in Donegal - this summer has shown the growing risks from the climate crisis
Go to a garden centre and you will pay the same 13.5 per cent tax for a packet of environment-enhancing wildflower seeds as for a bag of peat compost, which strips bogs of their sequestered carbon
Extreme weather events will likely become more frequent and Ireland has to be ready to handle them
Varadkar says travel operators should ‘err on the side of fairness’ when compensating affected customers
Government will not meet its legally-binding targets unless ‘urgent action taken’
Cliff Taylor: Why do big infrastructure projects always take so long in Ireland?
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