Cop29: Can a bloated and cumbersome process undermined by self-interest deliver for our planet?
Baku conference offers opportunities to help avoid climate catastrophe, despite the obstacles
Baku conference offers opportunities to help avoid climate catastrophe, despite the obstacles
Logistical problems coinciding with concerns about not fit for purpose decision making with deck stacked heavily on side of carbon polluters
‘What chance do we have if our voices are suffocated by the influence of big polluters?’
‘It’s time for fossil fuel companies to contribute to climate finance to provide clean energy for vulnerable countries,’ Minister for Climate says ahead of gathering
There are welcome trends, but the latest science from multiple sources is killing the positive outlook: human-made greenhouse gases are still rising despite big pledges
Thinking in a Climate Emergency: Ireland is ideally placed to start the process of getting the proposed treaty initiative on the diplomatic and UN agenda
High-emitting states need to agree funding for new loss and damage fund agreed at Cop27, say lobby groups
Saudi Arabia spends €875m on soccer players in three months and ‘can afford’ to contribute more towards climate crisis
Discernible change in attitude by states in meetings on fringes of UN summit says Minister for Climate
From 1960 to 2014 Ireland’s emissions exacted $55bn in losses across countries largely in the global south
Sultan al-Jaber to take on role for November climate summit, prompting concern about potential ‘conflict of interest’
Unicef Ireland’s Paul Connolly urges companies to summon ‘that emergency spirit’ to help combat climate change, which is already harming millions of children
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The shortest lived premiership in UK history, Aisling Murphy, Climate Change and death of Queen Elizabeth
While increasingly hitting the developed world, it is poorer countries suffering most
Continued warming — and melting — will directly affect these shores
Cop15: Talks running out of time to ensure key conservation decisions are agreed, WWF warns
It is vital that countries reach an agreement in Montreal - and then stick to their commitments
Cop15′s hopes for ‘Paris agreement for nature’ face big obstacles
Without gender equality, there will not be climate justice or the innovations needed for a safe future
A welcome UN push to tighten corporate rules is sending shudders through some boardrooms
New study calculates emissions on basis of consumption rather than production
The potential consequences of the global temperature rising by two degrees are devastating if we fail to plan ahead now
Coalition leaders stress urgency and say plan must be accelerated
Their hijacking by the fossil fuel sector, and failure, year on year, to do the job they were set up to do, surely means that Cop is no longer fit for purpose.
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Dissenting voices unhappy with summit for retreat on emissions cuts and ending fossil fuel use
Biggest emitters will make payments to poorest states, but activists unhappy at pace of change
The agreement on a new fund to compensate developing countries hit by climate disasters is welcome, but the summit still leaves the planet in peril
‘There is nothing in there on fossil fuels, meaning nothing on the actual cause of climate change’
Analysis: Primary success is establishment of a loss-and-damage fund; also adapting societies to effects of climate crisis
Cop27 summit concludes with agreement for loss-and-damage fund but fails to include phase-out of fossil fuels
Gap between promise and reality is spurring a welcome raft of ideas to bring more scientific rigour and accountability to COP commitments
EU, which threatened to walk away from negotiations, criticises weak outcome on key 1.5-degree ambition
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