Irish Examiner View: Fast action must follow fine words

 Micheál Martin addresses superpowers in historic climate address to the UN Security Council

Micheál Martin presides as president during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York City

Sometimes words constitute action. That was true yesterday when Taoiseach Micheál Martin, in a historic first, chaired a meeting of the UN Security Council and urged it to accept that extreme weather events are causing and exacerbating global conflict.

He warned that we are facing a code-red climate crisis and called for an urgent concerted, multilateral response involving all the organs of the UN.