A county council meeting heard there were a large number of road improvement projects on the waiting lists in the county under two Government funding streams

Main change for farmers will be less reliance on the single farm payment income support

Dr Paul Deane, said families would have to be central to government policy in decarbonisation if the carbon budgets are to work

However, despite the EU’s commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, they are not declining sufficiently, the European Commission warned

An avalanche-like global heating process is underway

Irish Coalition on Business and Human Rights says those damaged by the actions of Irish based firms should be able to sue them in Ireland

Our strange centralised system of government is hindering progress on a range of issues from housing to climate change

Experts in Ireland say scientists will not give in to pressure from the likes of Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia to revise stark climate warnings

A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency shows carbon emissions fell just 3.6% in Ireland last year, with agriculture emissions increasing

The potential for outbreaks of dengue, chikungunya and Zika is rising most rapidly in countries with a very high human development index

From next year, €2,500 grant for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will no longer be available 

A growing number of people are using electric scooters on Irish roads. They have been doing so illegally, but that is about to change.  The Government has approved the legislation to allow for e-scooters on Irish roads.

As world leaders prepare to gather for COP26 next month, expectations for progress are low, even as the need to address climate change becomes more urgent, writes Connie Hedegaard

The sponsors have raised formal complaints blaming “very inexperienced” civil servants for organisational failures in the run-up to the landmark talks

Discarded PPE, cans, and bottles, are all contributing to worsening litter levels in cities, but there has been a decline in the level of discarded coffee cups and cigarette butts

Research shows data centres could also play critical role in enabling more renewable energy

Meanwhile, the ESB is examining whether the decommissioned gas field could be used to store green hydrogen

Author and environmental scientist Tara Shine is Mick’s guest on this week’s pod

Trinity College Dublin researchers said: "There is a wealth of hidden biodiversity of plants, insects, fungi and other creatures, which mostly goes unnoticed" 

By becoming the oldest person to reach space, William Shatner has proved that you are never too old to stay forever young

The World Energy Outlook 2021 report said: "The energy sector is responsible for almost three-quarters of the emissions that have already pushed global average temperatures 1.1°C higher since the pre-industrial age."

According to a paper published in Nature Communications in 2018, shipping industry pollution led to 400,000 premature deaths each year, as well as contributing to millions of cases of childhood asthma

County councillors have written to a number of government ministers asking them to fast-track warmer homes scheme with immediate effect

The inflection point at which taxpayers' pockets are impacted by green initiatives has yet to be determined, writes Cormac Kelleher, international tax partner at Mazars in Ireland

The EPA also referred to the number of water supplies affected by pesticide exceedances increasing to 37 last year from 26 supplies in 2019

Shortages in energy supply shortages have started to bite across the world, leading to rising costs.

The green bonds will finance member states' environmentally beneficial projects as part of the EU's Covid-19 recovery fund

The initial extra costs of building a passive home are recouped in the long term with the elimination of heating bills   

Activists dragged a mocked-up fishing trawler through the Irish capital, with protesters dressed in black and wearing skeletal masks walking in a procession behind the vessel

That ministers across Europe took their eyes off the ball in respect of the looming energy crisis and consequential savage price increases is an inescapable conclusion.

We cannot negotiate our way out of the implications of a 1.5 or 2 degree rise in average temperatures. The political approach of giving a little here and taking a little there won’t cut it anymore, writes Dr Declan Jordan

The OPW  confirmed that the treatment of the invasive Japanese knotweed is linked to the controversial proposed Blackpool flood relief scheme, which is the subject of a legal challenge

Plus, vote on the best cup of coffee in Cork 

Ireland also fares poorly when it comes to biodiversity, CSO data shows

The UK is hoping that progress will be made on phasing out coal, providing climate finance to poor countries, and improving the protection of forests

Ming Yang's plan for a plant in Germany is part of China's bid to buy into Europe's fast-growing renewable energy market

Niall Gleeson appeared at Oireachtas housing committee where he responded to the EPA's scathing report on wastewater plants

Gazprom, ConocoPhillips and TotalEnergies are among energy firms expanding their fossil-fuel expansion in the region,  according to  Reclaim Finance.

Micheál Martin's speech was supported by France, the US, the UK and others, but it was not met warmly by Russia, China or India

At present, Ireland has some 2,000 public charging points for EVs, most of which are clustered in urban areas.

Police in England have arrested 23 people after environmental protesters targeted London's M25 for a fifth time in just over a week.

Unless urgent action is taken over the next 12 months there will not be enough time to build the offshore wind farms Ireland needs to meet the target

The World Bank’s latest Groundswell report about climate migration and climate displacement brings to Maeve Higgins' mind a freak weather incident in New York and the stories of those who drowned in their homes in the city after Hurricane Ida

Over the four decades it has operated, the Quay Co-op has been part of radical social change and has become a vital part of the community. Now a new film charts those changes in Ireland and the co-op's part in those changes