Taoiseach calls for global response to twin threat of Covid and climate change

Taoiseach Micheal Martin (Don Pollard/CFR/PA)

The Taoiseach used a speech before the UN General Assembly on Friday to call on global leaders to respond without delay to the challenges of Covid-19 and climate change.

In a speech that echoed comments Micheál Martin made at the UN Security Council on Thursday, he said that at meetings in New York this week a “series of alarms have sounded” on conflict, Covid-19 and climate change.