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It’s never been more important to think global whilst acting local

Fiona Hayes January, 2022

‘New Year’s Eve 2021 – provisionally the warmest on record’ claimed the UK Guardian newspaper. Whilst MET Éireann didn’t agree; or at least not for Ireland, nevertheless it reported that, during 2021 at least ten weather stations across Ireland reached heatwave conditions where temperatures of at least 25 degrees Celsius […]

‘Following the rooks’ in West Cork

WCP Staff January, 2022

by Nicholas Mitchell ‘The rook and jackdaw are too well known to need any introduction in themselves, as one need not go far from the centre of the city before seeing one or both species. On the principle that familiarity breeds contempt, it is perhaps their very abundance which accounts […]

A New Year’s pledge

Fiona Hayes December, 2021

It is “code red for humanity…The world is running out of time,” declared UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres at the start of COP26. But even as we all know this, still we wait! Forty-four years ago ExxonMobil senior scientist James Black told the fossil fuel executives that, “ Man has a […]

Winter in the garden

WCP Staff December, 2021

by Nicholas Mitchell I am writing this during the third week of November. Ordinarily, bird feeders would have been placed around the garden three weeks ago, but it has been such a mild autumn that this has not been necessary. The birds have been less in need of supplementary food during […]

World leaders drive us towards a climate change cliff edge as grassroots organisations close to home work for change

Fiona Hayes November, 2021

An IPCC special report states that the world needs to almost halve emissions over the next decade and reach net zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century in order to limit global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees. The report labelled global warming as a ‘code red for humanity’. […]

With shared global action there can be hope for a sustainable future

Grace O'Sullivan October, 2021

Over the course of the recent global week to ACT4SDGs, I addressed the European Assembly at the Global People’s Assembly. It was an event, which was run as part of a three-day programme running parallel to the UN General Assembly. Featuring speakers from 80 countries, it was an incredible showcase […]

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