Climate change protesters have glued themselves to the doors of a government building in Dublin.

I kept coming back to the image of two old fellas sitting on bar stools chatting away about future-proofing the economy without noticing that the fourth wall of the pub had already fallen over the cliff.

When world leaders, including the Taoiseach, meet at the UN Climate Summit, they have a chance to make a real difference. Right now, it’s as if we are falling from a skyscraper muttering ‘so far so good’, writes Éamonn Meehan, executive director of Trócaire

AN IMAGE of a drought-hit Dublin was yesterday used to highlight the impact of climate change on the world’s poor.

THE UN’s top climate change official says the EU has sent a “very encouraging” signal to developing countries by committing itself to bold measures against global warming.