Cop kicks off on Thursday. But what is it? 

Former rugby international was speaking at Asthma Society of Ireland event

Documents show industry intends to go ‘full force’ in arguing meat is beneficial to the environment at climate summit

The unprecedented scenes on the streets of Dublin last week heaped pressure on Garda Commissioner Drew Harris and Minister for Justice Helen McEntee.

Backers of Texas and Louisiana direct air capture (DAC) schemes differ in how carbon removal should be deployed, and what role oil and gas should play

The targets Ireland must meet by 2025 include a recycling rate of 50%, reaching a rate of municipal waste recycling of 55%, and recycling of packaging waste much reach 60%

Despite criticism over its location, former Irish president Mary Robinson says Cop28 is a ‘key moment’ for the Government to show that Ireland is not small — it’s influential, writes Environment Correspondent Pádraig Hoare

Climate change, the biggest challenge our world faces, can’t hold the attention of audiences or readers. That has to be addressed, writes Eoin Hahessy

BBC report revealed president of Cop28, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, has been planning secret deals to vastly expand oil and gas production at the event

A global stocktake of emissions will show a projected increase of 9% by 2030 instead of the targeted reduction of up to 45%

Ahead of UCC's first sustainability forum, where she is a keynote speaker, the former Irish president said that by global terms 'we are a rich country and our carbon footprint is quite high'

Governments must act to reduce emissions so people can have an individual choice on whether to have children in the future

Fossil fuel companies currently account for just 1% of clean energy investment globally and 60% comes from just four firms.

Cork councillor and Owenacurra campaigner Liam Quaide is set to run as a Social Democrat in next year's local elections, having quit the Green Party in dramatic fashion earlier this year.

The temperature in Perth is forecast to peak at 40C on Thursday – which is extraordinarily hot for the Southern Hemisphere spring – and winds remain strong

The 700-page Planning and Development Bill was published late on Tuesday night

Divisions set to deepen at climate conference with India and China opposed to any attempt to block construction of coal-fired power stations

One reader suggests renaming the Berkeley Library in honour of those whose labours paid for Trinity College at its foundation, while another says two wrongs do not make a right in Gaza

'It’s hard to see how we can curb these soaring omissions without taxing the wealth largely responsible'

Climate economists insist there is essentially nothing to worry about, and economic growth will continue even as the world burns, ecosystems fail, the ice shelves collapse, and the global weather system goes haywire, writes John Gibbons

Sometimes the future can be writ large. So it was for music journalist Jon Landeau one evening in 1974, when he went to a gig in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was blown away. “I saw my rock and roll past flash before my eyes,” he wrote.

However, scientists warn that simply planting trees will not solve all our problems — "We absolutely need to cut down emissions from all sectors. Trees alone cannot offer humanity a get-out-of-jail-free card"

Climate Change Advisory Council says the deployment of onshore renewable projects is far behind schedule with only four wind schemes approved in the last 12 months

Cork City Council has meanwhile confirmed that work on its Morrison's Island public realm improvement and flood protection scheme should start next year

Climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared at London's Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, November 15, charged with a public order offence over an environmental protest in central London last month.