Joyce Fegan: The climate activists gearing up for 2023

With just eight years left of the IPCC's predicted 12 years to limit climate catastrophe, Joyce Fegan speaks to the environmental activists planning to make 2023 the year the world pays attention

Manuel Salazar at an Extinction Rebellion protest outside Leinster House in Dublin about sea change last year. Photo: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

"We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns [the] UN", read a headline in The Guardian newspaper more than four years ago.

It was autumn of 2018 and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report had just been published - its major finding was that the world had just 12 years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C. Even as much as half a degree more would significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of human lives.