Irish Examiner view: Has war put net zero on the back burner?

Risks related to global warming accelerating so rapidly that the world is reaching the point of no return

Wildfires devastated Greece and Turkey for nearly two weeks last August. Picture: Angelos Zortzinis/AFP via Getty 

Delay means death. Those were the words of the UN secretary general António Guterres at the end of February.

He might have been talking about the war in Ukraine, a subject which has preoccupied him, and political leaders in Europe and Nato, for much of this month. But he wasn’t. 

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