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Monday November 29th, 2021
Smoky coal from NI delivered ‘unchallenged’ to homes in smokeless zones, Dáil told
Irish Times
29 Nov 2021Air pollution from traffic fell by up to 50pc in some urban areas in 2020
Irish Independent
29 Nov 2021Electric cars averaged more travel than petrol vehicles in Australia in past year
Guardian
29 Nov 2021Succession’s plot twist prompts surge of interest in leaving money in wills to Greenpeace
Guardian
29 Nov 2021Environmental activists face ‘fever pitch’ of repression from Australian governments, report says
Guardian
29 Nov 2021Plan for car chargers in all new homes in England ‘will make access exclusive’
Guardian
29 Nov 2021Monday November 22nd, 2021
Review of carbon budgets urged amid concern figures do not add up
Irish Independent
22 Nov 2021US cities working to reduce emissions in the absence of bold action in Washington
Guardian
22 Nov 2021People under 60 likely to face ‘less liveable’ world, warns former President Mary Robinson
Irish Independent
22 Nov 2021Ocean scientists call for global tracking of oxygen loss that causes dead zones
Guardian
22 Nov 2021US auctions off oil and gas drilling leases in Gulf of Mexico after climate talks
Guardian
22 Nov 2021Monday November 15th, 2021
Major European carmakers will hit emissions targets too easily, research shows
Guardian
15 Nov 2021Peat imports into Ireland ‘make no environmental, economic or ethical sense’
Irish Times
15 Nov 2021Plea for more funds as climate scientists forge all-island alliance
Irish Independent
15 Nov 2021Ireland joins alliance working to end global oil and gas production
Irish Independent
15 Nov 2021It’s a fairytale that world governments will fix our climate crisis. It’s up to us:...
Guardian
15 Nov 2021Mung beans, bunnies and the Muppets: PM’s green rhetoric ‘insulting and divisive’
Guardian
15 Nov 2021We’re going to need a bigger planet: the problem with fixing the climate with trees
Guardian
15 Nov 2021Where voters and consumers lead on the climate crisis, businesses will have to follow: Will...
Guardian
15 Nov 2021India criticised over coal at Cop26 – but real villain was climate injustice
Guardian
15 Nov 2021Just 124 people own most of England’s deep peat – its largest carbon store
Guardian
15 Nov 2021Monday November 8th, 2021
Taoiseach criticises ‘obsession’ with reducing the national herd as Government launches plan to cut emissions...
Irish Independent
8 Nov 2021Mairead McGuinness urged to reclassify nuclear power as possible ‘green’ solution for EU
Irish Independent
8 Nov 2021COP26 defends inclusion of fossil fuel firms as An Taisce cries foul
Irish Independent
8 Nov 2021Half world’s fossil fuel assets could become worthless by 2036 in net zero transition
Guardian
8 Nov 2021Never mind aid, never mind loans: what poor nations are owed is reparations: George Monbiot
Guardian
8 Nov 2021At Cop26, I’ve found I have more in common with protesters than politicians The civil...
Guardian
8 Nov 2021‘The time for change is now’: demonstrators around the world demand action on climate crisis
Guardian
8 Nov 2021Americans can eat meat while cutting global heating, says agriculture secretary
Guardian
8 Nov 2021Monday November 1st, 2021
‘We will take fossil fuel-powered buses and cars off our streets’ – Taoiseach reveals radical...
Irish Independent
1 Nov 2021‘The clock is ticking loudly’ – focus on farming and methane emissions as UN looks...
Irish Independent
1 Nov 2021Poll shows 80pc of public back 2030 target to cut gas emissions by half
Irish Independent
1 Nov 2021Beyond Extinction Rebellion: the protest groups fighting on the climate frontline
Guardian
1 Nov 2021Biggest ever Irish climate team aims to make its mark in Glasgow at COP26 talks
Irish Independent
1 Nov 2021Record greenhouse gas concentrations pushing Earth into ‘uncharted territory’ – report
Irish Times
1 Nov 2021