Hannah Daly: Meeting global warming obligations will require a change to our mindset

Ireland may be a small nation but it has an outsized impact on global warming, which Dr Hannah Daly believes requires a transformational change across society, and of people’s mindsets if we are to turn it around. It will be difficult but it has to be done to secure our future.

Our planet is in dire straits with the ongoing warming of our planet, requiring everyone to do what they can to slow down and reverse climate change.

After decades of inaction on climate mitigation, there is now only a narrow window left for the world to meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

In Ireland we have an outsized impact on global warming: if everyone in the world had the same per-capita emissions, the planet would already have warmed by a catastrophic 3°C.