Cross-border partnership to tackle 'wickedly complex' climate change challenge

A climate activist holds up a placard at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. 

An all-island partnership between leading researchers on climate change and biodiversity will attempt to tackle what has become a "wickedly complex" challenge, a leading academic has said.

Professor Peter Thorne is the Irish lead scientist on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the precursor to the UN climate change summit Cop26 in Glasgow.