Unicef Ireland’s Paul Connolly urges companies to summon ‘that emergency spirit’ to help combat climate change, which is already harming millions of children

‘2022 was a year when the post-lockdown dawn turned out to be the morning after the night before’

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