"the global climate crisis cannot best be addressed by litigation, but instead requires collaborative global efforts" - a bizarre take given the essential and significant changes to Ireland's Climate Act that were made in the wake of Climate Case Ireland. independent.ie/irish-news/gre…

Bhí mé ar TG4 tráthnóna inniu ag plé an scéal brónach seo agus na cúiseanna atá leis na harduithe ollmhóra teochta san Eoraip. ---- I was on TG4 this evening discussing this sad story and the reasons for the massive temperature rises in Europe. #ClimateEmergency #climate

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Read Alice-Mary Higgins below 👇 The Seanad CEG's Arms Embargo Bill would prohibit passage of arms through Shannon Airport to Israel and require inspection of planes. Bill is here: oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/… Call on Simon Harris TD to support: email [email protected]

There I am now talking about ‘Reframing Corporate Duties and Climate Change’ at the CLASS International Climate Law Conference in the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Thanks for the invite Hana Müllerová and Monika Feigerlová, it was great.

Just voted all the way down to 17. Got to keep the creeps out

The Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee issued a report this week expressing the view that parts of the Planning and Development Bill 2023 do not comply with the #Aarhus Convention

Great news. The #NatureRestorationLaw has been agreed by the EU Environment Council. I’m proud of the work we did in bringing it back to the Council today, when many thought it was dead. It has been restored in the same way nature will when we give it the right resources & space.

Welcome proof from the latest Grantham LSE report that the penny continues to drop -Corporations drive climate change- More than 230 corporate climate cases have now been filed, with increasing diversity in both case strategy and sectors targeted. Thx to Joana Setzer Catherine Higham

“Planned Google data centre will create almost quarter million tonnes of co2 emissions” annually - this is around 10% of the total budgeted emissions for the electricity sector in 2030. irishtimes.com/business/2024/…

Thought at first glance this was a Waterford Whispers parody, but no, our Agri Minister Charlie McConalogue is now, in depths of #climate, biodiversity crisis, doubling up as fertiliser industry salesman.

Wonderfully disingenuous headline from RTÉ. Just climate accountancy. Almost all of this reduction is due to importations of UK electricity, “emissions from which are not attributed to Ireland.” 17% drop in electricity sector emissions this year - SEAI rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

🌍New landmark climate case: This morning, Community Law & Mediation, alongside a grandfather, a youth climate activist, and a child were granted leave to proceed with a landmark court case challenging inadequate Government action on climate change. This case, which argues

It’s absolutely staggering in 2024 to watch a debate where both candidates are bickering over who would be better for the oil industry.

Interesting. Labour's new climate envoy Rachel Kyte is co-chair of climate advisory board of Quadrature Climate Foundation, linked to Quadrature hedge fund based in the Cayman Islands which invests in fossil fuel firms. Quadrature gave Labour £4m on 28 May, at the start of the