A local man who had undergone surgery was unable to get prescribed medicine because his home was cut off.

The lord mayor highlighted Cork’s leadership as both a WHO-designated Healthy City and an EU Mission City committed to achieving climate neutrality and net zero emissions by 2030.

By delivering a month of free-to-attend public climate action events, Cork County Council will promote and encourage the public to take positive local climate action.

Examples of projects that can be considered include energy efficiency upgrades, solar PV installations, composting, community gardens, green walls, and tree planting.

The course is the first in a new series of free, university-accredited micro-credentials being developed as part of the EU co-funded project.

Dr Paul Leahy was speaking to The Echo as a new Environmental Protection Agency report disclosed that Ireland faced a total of 115 risks ranging from projected changes in climate conditions. 

Minister for Rural and Community Development, Dara Calleary, was speaking in Cork as he launched this year's competition.

Researchers said that meeting ambitious carbon budgets would cost between €600m and €1.4bn annually from 2024 to 2050.

RESET GREEN 2024 is here, and with it comes the opportunity to pause, reflect, and assess who you are, who you want to be, and how you can get there. CARMEL WRIGHT shares advice on how we can have a greener life - at home and beyond.

António Guterres calls for urgent action from the international community to be taken to mitigate the risks from the rapidly growing technology

Mrs Robinson will call for greater ambition on climate action during a major climate conference at University College Cork.

Despite the rain, the protest was well attended by young people, including primary school pupils, a climate officer from Cork City Council, local political representatives and representatives from University College Cork (UCC) Students Union.

UCC is aiming to become a zero-waste campus by 2030 and a carbon-neutral campus by 2040.

Cork City Council has announced that €840,000 of new funding is being made available for community organisations to act on climate change in the city over an 18-month period.

There are enough clothes on the planet right now to dress the next six generations of the human race, so says Kathriona Devereux in her weekly column

The Government’s Climate Action Plan 2023 places offshore wind power as a massive tool in their commitment to producing 80% of Ireland’s energy by 2030.

Speakers from community groups along with interested individuals recently gathered for the seminar which was organised and hosted by SECAD Partnership, Avondhu Blackwater, and Comhar na nOileán

Cathy O'Sullivan said the deluge of rain started on Friday, so intense that “you could barely see out the window” .

Cork City Council signs up to EU climate change charter

Micheál Martin made the comments as he prepares to attend the Cop27 UN climate talks in Egypt

A reduction in the range of 62-81% was outlined for electricity, with a 42-50% reduction in transport and a 25% target agreed for agriculture.

The farms will be among the first utility-scale solar production in Ireland, with Bord Gáis managing and offtaking the electricity produced from the farms for inclusion in its supply portfolio.

As Cork teachers marched in Dublin as part of a global day of action, Jennifer Horgan travelled with them and found out why climate change is something educators believe should be an important part of the curriculum

With the eyes of the world on the Cop26 climate crisis conference in Glasgow, John Roycroft asks what the sports world has done and still needs to do to tackle its own carbon footprint

YOUNG people took to the streets in Cork today as part of global protests calling for radical intervention to address climate change.

A UNIVERSITY College Cork (UCC) academic has warned that Ireland does “not have the luxury of taking a breather” in the battle against climate change, as a new report finds the country is becoming warmer and wetter, with extreme weather events more ...

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned of the effects on the environment cultivated from human habits in a hard-hitting report.

AUTOMATED air-monitoring systems showed poor air quality in Cork City in recent days, so the public is being invited to have their say on a strategy to improve the situation.

AN increase in storms in recent years has led to extensive erosion of sand dunes at many West Cork beaches.

NO DOUBT you will have heard about the financial rankings of the top clubs of Europe this week.  Spoiler alert; the rich and famous of Europe's football elite will probably survive the impact Covid-19 has had on their earnings.

CORK motor dealers have welcomed the omission of the proposed ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 in the Government’s Climate Action bill.

A Cork expert has highlighted the air pollution dangers of road asphalt and the need for change in transport.

THE battle against air pollution has been pushed to one side amid the global pandemic but it has never been more important, an air quality expert in Cork has claimed.

ANOTHER prestigious accolade has been awarded to Kinsale native Sophie Healy Thow, who first came to the attention of the public thanks to her work with the BT Young Scientist Exhibition at the age of 15.