Cop30: Irish Minister commits to supporting poorest nations, but concerns over climate funding remain
Campaigners say Loss and Damage Fund, agreed at Cop27 in 2022, is under-funded, too restrictive and too slow to respond
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Why is the Government playing chicken on climate with Europe?
At a time of climate crisis: Climate action is fiscal prudence
Colonialism still a puppet master of today’s extinction crisis
Decolonising entrenched patterns of power and thinking needed as part of response to environmental nightmare
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
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
Fossil fuel lobbyists attending Cop28 in record numbers, analysis shows
‘What chance do we have if our voices are suffocated by the influence of big polluters?’
Cop28 must overhaul global financial system to address climate crisis, Eamon Ryan says
‘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
Cop28 beckons: A hellish future is predicted, yet the world continues to take baby steps on climate crisis
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
Ireland should support the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
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
Irish ‘loss and damage’ payments for climate disasters in developing countries ‘must reach €1.5bn a year by 2030’
High-emitting states need to agree funding for new loss and damage fund agreed at Cop27, say lobby groups
States awash with fossil fuel profits should divert funds to tackle climate crisis, says Eamon Ryan
Saudi Arabia spends €875m on soccer players in three months and ‘can afford’ to contribute more towards climate crisis
UN summit: Some progress on global ‘loss and damage’ climate fund - Eamon Ryan
Discernible change in attitude by states in meetings on fringes of UN summit says Minister for Climate
What does Ireland owe the world for its role in climate change?
From 1960 to 2014 Ireland’s emissions exacted $55bn in losses across countries largely in the global south
Climate advocates alarmed as UAE oil chief appointed Cop28 president
Sultan al-Jaber to take on role for November climate summit, prompting concern about potential ‘conflict of interest’
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