BURNING questions around what is perhaps the greatest threat to our way of life - climate change - will be raised this evening at a climate change conference in University College Cork. Keep abreast of those questions and answers via live updates in this story.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan was heckled during the budget speeches — even though he was thousands of miles away at the time.

US President Barack Obama spoke with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday to discuss climate change and the global economic recovery.

Europe today warned it will boycott American-led climate talks next month unless the country accepts targets for cutting greenhouse gases at the Bali climate conference.

Humanity faces oblivion if it fails to confront global warming, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon warned today.