Sustainable cities with many green spaces key to cutting greenhouse gas emissions 

Dr Eoin Lettice said this week's report from the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows "we would knowingly be condemning future generations to dire consequences" if rapid decarbonisation does not occur. File picture: Dan Linehan

Sustainable cities with a myriad of public transport and green spaces are key to rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and defending against climate change, according to one of Ireland's leading biodiversity experts.

Eoin Lettice, plant scientist at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Environmental Research Institute at UCC, said this week's report from the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows "we would knowingly be condemning future generations to dire consequences" if rapid decarbonisation does not occur.