Climate & Environment

Governments need to be more ambitious to address global warming issues, says expert

IPCC member Peter Thorne points to ‘major gap’ between between emissions reductions needed and governments’ pledges

Peter Thorne, professor in climate change at NUI Maynooth: ‘We have all the solutions we need to halve emissions this decade. The Irish government has to show the type of leadership it displayed during the pandemic to deliver immediate and steep emissions cuts in a fair way.’ Picture: Maura Hickey

Any hope of staying below 1.5 degrees of global warming is already “dead in the water”, climate experts have told the Business Post as the COP 27 climate conference gets under way.

COP 27, the United Nations climate conference, is taking place in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt over the next two weeks. Government delegations from around the world will try to increase their ambition for emission reductions, as well as increase the finance channelled ...