John Gibbons
John Gibbons: Investors’ slow shuffle away from fossil fuel giants gathering speed
Real climate action is finally happening – and the key driver is, improbably, the global investment community
John Gibbons: Climate science has long been the victim of ‘fake news’ obscuring uncomfortable truths
By pouncing on supposed uncertainties in climate science, big business interests and their supporters in the media divert attention away from the real climate emergency
John Gibbons: Latest climate ‘roadmap’ takes a scenic route to nowhere
Ag Climatise’s waffly language masks an alarming lack of commitment to doing the hard work of reducing emissions
John Gibbons: Taking Biden’s temperature reveals a surprisingly radical climate agenda
The US president-elect’s thinking over his five-decade career has clearly shifted towards more transformative actions, as the climate crisis becomes graver by the day
Irish agriculture must change its ways before it’s too late
Comment: Our agri-food policy is adrift from ecological and climate reality, at a time when we can least afford it to be
There will be no vaccine for the worsening climate crisis
Comment: A potentially more ominous deadline looms the day after the US presidential election if Trump wins
Distress signals from Earth: the new condition of ‘eco-grief’
They’re calling it ‘eco distress’: a psychological phenomenon characterised not only by grief for how much of the natural world has been lost, but also foreboding at what is yet to come. Can a coping strategy be found?
It’s time to recognise that SUVs are the big bad villains of vehicle air pollution
The growing worldwide love affair with larger, heavier Sports Utility Vehicles has all but wiped out the motor industry’s gains in fuel efficiency over the past 20 years
Sweden proves that countries can be wealthy and clean too
Sweden began to separate carbon emissions from growth in the 1970s, with dramatic results
