Carbon tax should hit €35 per tonne in next Budget

June 18th, 2019 The carbon tax should be raised to €35 per tonne emitted in the next Budget, the chair of the State’s climate advisory...

Jakobshavn Glacier Grows for Third Straight Year

New NASA data shows that Jakobshavn Glacier — Greenland's fastest-moving and fastest-thinning glacier for most of the 2000s — grew from 2018 into 2019,...

In-depth Q&A: Why Ireland is ‘nowhere near’ meeting its climate-change goals

Despite its comparatively small population, stalling efforts to tackle climate change mean Ireland contributes a disproportionate volume of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions. While the UK...

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