200,000 European citizens sign landmark petition calling on the EU to protect soil

September 19th, 2017 The Irish branch of the European-wide People4Soil campaign has smashed its national quota for an official EU petition calling on the European...

PRESS RELEASE: 200,000 European Citizens sign landmark petition calling on the EU to protect...

Immediate Release The Irish branch of the European-wide People4Soil campaign has smashed its national quota for an official EU petition calling on the European Commission to...

Did limiting warming to 1.5C just get easier?

Something is wrong with the carbon budget. The latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests the cap on carbon emissions that would keep the...

EU plan to bring clean energy revolution to over 2,700 islands

September 19th, 2017 A new EU initiative to bring the clean energy revolution to over 2,700 islands across Europe is set to be launched this...

ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards 2018 launched

September 18th, 2017 ECO-UNESCO today launched the Young Environmentalists Awards 2018 calling on Ireland’s greenest teens to step up and take action in their communities...

Guest post: Why the 1.5C warming limit is not yet a geophysical impossibility

Dr Richard Millar is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative at the University of Oxford. The Paris Agreement...

August 2017 was second warmest on record

A global map of the August 2017 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly, relative to the 1951-1980 August average. Part of Antarctica is gray because...

Jerry Brown’s climate coalition now covers 39% of the global economy

The Marshall Islands and Mozambique have joined a growing group of governments convened by California governor Jerry Brown that have committed to deep carbon pollution cuts. The Under2...

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