Leaders acting like kids on climate, Greta Thunberg tells COP24
December 3rd, 2018
The world’s youth must lead in pushing for climate action as our politicians are “behaving like children” the 15-year-old Swedish climate activist...
Barriers to environmental justice ‘widespread’ across EU
December 3rd, 2018
Taking a legal challenge against environmentally damaging decisions is burdensome as barriers to justice are widespread across the EU, a report from...
Strong UK environmental watchdog needed post-Brexit
December 3rd, 2018
Some of Europe’s leading environmental group have called on the European Commission to push for the creation of a strong environmental watchdog...
The Future of Money: a seminal conference in Frankfurt
This gathering brought together people from many countries and different walks of life to consider how we can best stabilise our dangerously rocky global...
Money: the Silent Killer
The fact that most money is created on a basis of debt is putting hidden, but dangerous, pressure on the biosphere, argues Caroline Whyte.
REVEALED: Moneypoint power station out of action for over two months
December 3rd, 2018
All three coal-fired units at ESB’s Moneypoint power station have been out of action for the past two months due to a...
An Bord Pleanála grants permission for Skibbereen plastic factory
December 3rd,2018
An Bord Pleanála (ABP) has granted planning permission for a plastic factory in Skibbereen, Co Cork despite deep reservations from concerned locals over...
David Attenborough warns extinction of natural world ‘on horizon’
December 3rd, 2018
The collapse of our civilisation and the extinction of much of the natural world are “on the horizon” if we don’t take...
COP24 kicks off with world in ‘deep trouble’ over climate change
December 3rd, 2018
The annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) opened this morning with the vital goal of finalising guidelines on how to implement the...
Local Communities Must Be Given More Power to Halt Economic Decline
Local communities should be given more decision-making powers to halt the decline of town centres. That is the view of the Green Party in...
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