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Outgoing Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan pictured in Baku giving a national statement at the COP29 conference

Eamon Ryan welcomes 'hard-fought' COP29 climate deal

Outgoing Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has welcomed the "hard-fought" deal on climate finance struck by countries at COP29, as activists and aid organisations harshly criticised the agreement

Climate Change • 24 Nov 24

Conference participants walk past activists urging public climate finance for developing nations impacted by climate change

Developing nations criticise COP29 deal as insufficient

Countries at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan adopted a $300 billion (€288bn) a year global finance target to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient

World • 24 Nov 24

COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev speaking in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the climate summit

For first time ever, money the main item on a COP agenda

The COP29 climate talks in Baku was the 29th time in 32 years that the nations of the world gathered to negotiate what to do about climate change, writes George Lee

World • 24 Nov 24

Activists protested for climate finance grants for poor countries as negotiators had walked out of overtime consultations on a climate deal

COP29 raises $300bn for poor nations in climate deal

Nearly 200 nations have approved a climate deal that raises to at least $300bn a year to help poorer countries deal with the impacts of climate change, with rich countries leading the payments, according to a hard fought deal clinched at the COP29 conference in Baku.

Climate Change • 24 Nov 24

Azerbaijan had said it hoped to adopt a global deal by consensus at a closing session sometime after 10am local time

EU, US raise climate pledge to developing nations at COP

The European Union, United States and other wealthy countries at the COP29 climate summit have agreed to raise their offer of a global finance target to $300 billion (€288bn) per year by 2035, sources told Reuters

World • 23 Nov 24

COP29 is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan

COP29 proposes $250bn a year in climate finance

A new draft of a global climate agreement released at COP29 in Azerbaijan proposes that developed countries provide $250 billion annually by 2035 to help poorer countries fight global warming.

World • 22 Nov 24

Climate activists outside the talks venue in Azerbaijan's capital Baku

COP29 climate talks enter final phase: What happens next?

Marathon COP29 climate talks have entered their final stretch in Azerbaijan with delegates attempting to agree a new goal on issues including climate finance.

Climate Change • 20 Nov 24

Ireland is now considered among the medium climate action performers worldwide for the first time according to the report (file image)

Ireland achieves best ranking yet globally on emissions

The international ranking of Ireland's climate performance has improved substantially over the past 12 months according to a new report published at the COP29 climate conference.

Environment • 20 Nov 24

Eamon Ryan said Ireland wants access to reliable finance to be ensured

COP29 needs to deliver deal on climate finance - Ryan

Bringing climate action and supporting the least developed countries is at the heart of Ireland's position on climate finance, according to Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan.

Climate Change • 19 Nov 24

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for action to address global warming and poverty

Lula launches alliance to combat poverty at G20 summit

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, also known as Lula, opened the summit of the Group of 20 major economies with the launch of a global alliance to combat poverty and hunger that more than 80 countries have agreed to back.

Climate Change • 19 Nov 24

There are 197 parties, plus the European Union at the Climate talks

COP structure cannot deliver change at exponential speed

Keeping the rise in global temperatures below 1.5C is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. There is a rising sense of panic among the most senior, and most influential, United Nations advisers about it.

Climate Change • 18 Nov 24

Rise in temperatures cause 'sense of panic' at COP29

Keeping the rise in global temperatures below 1.5 degrees is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. There is a rising sense of panic among the most senior, and most influential, United Nations advisers about it.

World • 17 Nov 24

Jessica Dunne, Cian Walsh and Áine Dempsey are attending the climate summit

Watch: Young Irish delegates voice concerns at 'slow' COP

Three young Irish delegates have expressed their frustration with the lack of progress at COP29, the UN's climate summit.

COP29 • 16 Nov 24

Mr Gore urged delegates to come to solutions rather than bow to political and industrial pressure

Al Gore slams fossil fuel industry in fiery COP29 speech

Former US Vice President Al Gore slammed the fossil fuel industry in a fiery speech at the COP29 summit in Baku, claiming that officials in the sector are "way better at capturing politicians than emissions."

Environment • 15 Nov 24

Activists demand climate change loss and damage financing from rich countries at the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference in Baku

COP29 climate talks grapple with trillion-dollar task

Countries at the COP29 summit tried to make progress on how to raise up to $1 trillion in climate finance for the world's most vulnerable, as political tensions overshadowed the talks.

COP29 • 14 Nov 24

Global Carbon Budget report said global CO2 emissions are set to total 41.6 billion metric tons in 2024

Window of time to act on climate 'shrinking', COP29 hears

Global leaders offered competing visions on how to tackle climate change at UN-led talks as a new report warned that the world must reach carbon neutrality much sooner than planned.

COP29 • 13 Nov 24

Keir Starmer speaking at the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan

UK vows to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 81% by 2035

The UK will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 81% on 1990 levels by 2035, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced, as his government ramps up its ambitions on climate change.

Climate Change • 12 Nov 24

Antonio Guterres speaking during the opening ceremony of the COP29 conference in Baku

Pay up or face climate-led disaster, UN warns at COP29

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told world leaders at the COP29 summit to "pay up" to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters, and said time was running out to limit a destructive rise in global temperatures.