Election 2024: Politicians and voters ‘don’t take climate threat seriously enough’

In the wake of the recent disastrous Spanish floods, Friends of the Earth Ireland CEO Oisín Coghlan said: 'I doubt climate change came up that much on the doors in the Spanish general election last year. But it’s on the doorsteps in Valencia and Malaga now.' Picture: Alberto Saiz/AP  

Political leaders and voters are not taking the threat of climate change seriously in the general election campaign despite its devastating effects becoming more apparent in Ireland, environmental campaigners warn.

International researchers this week issued fresh warnings that, on the current trajectory, global heating will smash the 1.5C scientists say is the limit to stave off the worst of climate change.