The challengers, aged 11 to 22, argue that the proposal — and that legislation in particular — violates two sections of the Alaska constitution: the right to protected natural resources for “current and future generations”, and the right to be free from government infringement on life, liberty and property

The president of the UN’s climate change summit has been accused of being “completely divorced from reality” after denying the science that fossil fuels need to be phased out in a robust exchange with former president Mary Robinson.

In the 1940s, during the Emergency, everyone in Ireland had a ration card.  Today, we are in a full-blown Climate Emergency. Action is needed that is both drastic and fair. Once again, rationing could be the key