“Young people & children are those with the most wild & wonderful & creative ideas in how we can move towards saving our planet.”

Watch the keynote contribution by participants in Ireland's Children & Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity at #DCUClimate2024 .

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80% of those 'ireland is full' racist tweets are by foreigners

A poignant vigil for Greta Price-Martin, the 22 year old Co Louth IADT student and cyclist who was killed last week. Family, friends and residents in Dun Laoghaire were told by her father, Breffni: “She should have been safe here.” Her mother Vanessa said: “Keep cycling.”

This is incredible

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Meanwhile, parts of Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, India and Bangladesh are living through brutal heat conditions - some a handful of degrees away from a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C, the threshold for human survivability

#ClimateAction

Good climate news this week
1 Renewables supply 14 straight days (and 43 of last 51) above demand in California for part of the day
2 US EPA limits pollution from coal plants
3 China CO2 emissions per unit of GDP to fall 3.9%
4 EU votes to leaves Energy Charter Treaty
5 Fossil…

“We’re actually on the cusp of a clean energy, safer, healthier, much fairer world. We’re moving a bit faster, but we’re not moving nearly fast enough for the science.”

Watch back Mary Robinson’s keynote at our 2024 conference, held on 16 April Dublin City University.
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Historic climate action week at the EU parliament, with 4 consequential decisions which will have massive positive consequences over the course of this decade, through their ripple effects everywhere

1 Leave the Energy Charter Treaty, a legal structure designed to addict us to…

We looked at the human cost of increased temperatures and cross-referenced this with Big Oil’s production plans.

What did we find?

That #BigOil ’s emissions could cause 11.5 million deaths from heat by 2100 ⬇

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What are the most frequented flight routes in Europe?

A whopping 43 flights between London and Amsterdam departed every day last year, making it the second-busiest route in Europe despite a direct 4-hour train alternative.

It’s time to rethink how we travel in Europe.

NEW: This week's climate graphic looks at heatwave related deaths, which are up 30% in Europe over the past 20 years. Much of eastern Europe also had their warmest year on record in 2023 according to Copernicus ECMWF
Read Attracta Mooney's report
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#dataviz

Exactly

Good climate news this week
1 China new EVs cross 50% share in April
2 Wind industry builds record 117GW in 2023
3 Deforestation down 42% on Amazon indigenous lands
4 Indonesian clergy push green Islam
5 Major renewables push to come in Mexico
6 Zambia bans charcoal permits

Irish Aid 🇮🇪 is glad to be supporting the timely Debt, Climate and Nature expert review initiated by Kenya and Colombia 👇 #climatefinance

Fully agree ,,👇

Ireland is pleased to continue to support the Somalia Humanitarian Fund @SHF_Somalia as they provide critical, lifesaving interventions to those affected by historic drought, floods & displacement.

Global economy could see income reduction of 19% by 2050 due to already committed emissions & resultant climate damages - the cost of which Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK warns are set to be 6x higher than the cost of #climateaction . 1/2

New study bottom trawling is responsible for up to 370 million metric tons of c02 into atmosphere every year
Trawling rips up sediment destroying natural habitats by causing physical disturbances on the seabed that have been compared to forest clearcutting
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Saving lives is not a crime.