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Tensions flare in government over carbon emissions cuts

Senior Greens insist the farming sector must reach a level of 30% cuts, but Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil want the figure closer to 22%, due to pressure from farmers and rural backbenchers

70 firms sign up to Low Carbon Pledge

New report shows signatory companies were shown to be making progress on setting targets and publishing data, but not yet on actually reducing their absolute emissions

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War and inflation will threaten climate targets — Coca Cola chief executive

Challenges facing the world economy will put further pressure on global climate action, according to James Quincey

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Irony and inconsistency in EU’s move away from Russian gas, Green MEP says

Europe is sourcing fuel from dodgy regimes in effort to reduce reliance on Russian imports, Ciarán Cuffe says

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System change to save our planet is not someone else’s job, it’s everyone’s job

Most of us think the fate of the living world has nothing to do with us. We couldn’t be more wrong. Our professional work is right at the heart of the climate crisis

Ireland missed ‘enormous opportunity’ on offshore wind and must avoid repeat – industry expert

Wind Energy Ireland will tell politicians the war in Ukraine means that developing offshore wind infrastructure is more urgent than ever

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Hometree: A west Clare tree-planting charity that’s growing into a movement

The government has identified afforestation as a key element in the fight against climate change and Hometree, a charity in west Clare, is helping that effort through tree planting and education

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Ryan approves 70% hike in environmental group funding

Minister for the Environment has boosted the budget for the Irish Environmental Network from €1 million to €1.7 million in light of the climate and ecosystem emergency

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John Gibbons: The meek will inherit a ruined, dangerous, inhospitable earth

When today’s children look back at our lack of effort to stave off the looming climate disaster, they’ll wonder at how docilely we accepted our fate, and theirs

Regulator offers to incentivise LNG terminals to boost ‘security of supply’

The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities has said it would allow a cut in the charges for any LNG facilities adding gas onto the national network

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Number of retrofits doubles after new grants are introduced

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s figures show there have been 18,750 applications for home energy upgrades so far this year, equal to the total number for all of last year

M&G scales back its stake in Providence Resources

The London fund has shrunk its holding to 8.99 per cent, as the Irish oil exploration firm awaits the go-ahead to finance an appraisal well at Barryroe oil field

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Ireland way off target on climate change goals and existing policies are not enough, EPA warns

The state’s environmental watchdog predicts that emissions will only fall by 27.9% by 2030 based on 2018 levels, far short of the 51% reduction required by law under the new Climate Action Bill

ESB to recruit 1,000 people to accelerate Net Zero strategy

The recruitment drive is aimed at delivering infrastructure, services and associated customer-focused solutions required to achieve net zero emissions

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John Gibbons: Masks are off, exposing economist Pollyannas leading the world off a climate cliff

Complacent and misinformed his FT presentation may have been, but HSBC bigwig Stuart Kirk did us all a favour by exposing the financial sector’s charade of talking ‘net zero by 2050’

Ireland lags in EU race to wean itself off gas

Europe’s €210 billion RePowerEU plan aims to cut use by over 60 per cent by 2030, while Gas Networks Ireland projects a 15 per cent rise in same period

Susan O’Keeffe: ‘Striding out at 7am simply isn’t working for young people’

The vista for those starting out in their careers is less attractive and stable than for previous generations — but there are ways employers can appeal more to under 25s

This Working Life: Measuring up to the challenges of a sustainable business model

As well complying with new EU sustainability legislation, companies need to be able to prove to investors that sustainable practices are an integral part of their business

John Gibbons: Clean, safe, always on – why nuclear power demands a rethink

Nuclear power has long been wrongly conflated with nuclear annihilation and the Cold War but in fact nuclear plants have caused fewer than 50 fatalities ever

Thousands of Dublin buildings at risk of flooding by century’s end, according to new research

A cloud-based climate intelligence business says that parts of the capital’s city centre will be under 1.7 metres of water by the end of the century