Climate

As Minister for Communications, Climate Change and the Environment, Richard Bruton, revealed that he is preparing to shelve his climate action plan over Brexit.

A Clonakilty man has been appointed to head up a five-year €2m climate change project which will examine how to protect ourselves from rising sea levels. 

Notwithstanding the pledge last week by new Minister for Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton to step up to the challenge of climate change, Ireland has, rightly, been put under international scrutiny

Cork County Council has been appointed the lead authority to set up and manage a Climate Action Office for the Atlantic Seaboard. 

Dunmanway is one of six European communities, across five countries, being surveyed to see how they engage with climate change.

Will what we would regard as extreme weather events, such as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia rampaging up through the island of Ireland last week and the subsequent relatively milder-mannered Storm Brian

Minister Naughten sought to turn the tables by opining that it is the NGOs that need to engage to a far greater extent – as he has done – with people on the ground involved in agriculture and other areas.

The IFA's environment chairman Thomas Cooney has called on Government to introduce additional measures to avoid climate fines, and to further reduce Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions.

President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States of America from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change is a setback for the efforts of responsible countries trying to reduce carbon emissions.