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Full coverage: Climate change

Climate, China and how Covid shook the world economy: When Stephen Kinsella met Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze’s latest book chronicles the year between January 20, 2020, and January 20, 2021, as the world realised Covid for the threat it was and moved to deal with it. The economist and historian talks about how the crisis has altered the world, the nature of geopolitics and the future.

Stephen Kinsella
16th Sep, 2021 - 4 min read

“The carbon budget’s allocation across sectors will be a political decision”

The Climate Change Advisory Council is about to publish Ireland’s first carbon budgets, which will set hard limits on greenhouse gas emissions for the next decade. Its chair Marie Donnelly details, step by step, how this overall figure will translate into obligations for individual ministers, businesses and households.

Thomas Hubert
8th Sep, 2021 - 12 min read

Trees v climate change: Could markets in everything save the world?

With no momentum to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, removing carbon from the atmosphere is our next best hope of slowing global warming. Yet planting trees is not happening either, which means it is time we put the right price on it.

Stephen Kinsella
26th Aug, 2021 - 7 min read

“Bigger companies and investors are looking at things through the lens of climate risks. More of us need to do the same”

In a special podcast, Stephen Kinsella, Sinéad O’Sullivan, John Reynolds and Thomas Hubert watch the dust settle on the two climate change reports published last week and discuss ways of meeting the challenge ahead for politics, society and business.

Thomas Hubert
16th Aug, 2021 - 4 min read

The climate change business portal

Greenhouse gases, mitigation, emissions, targets... Behind the complexity of the science and the jargon, the policy options to tackle climate change are becoming increasingly clearer. Some industries and companies are suffering, others are benefiting. Since its launch, The Currency has been covering all cases.

Thomas Hubert
10th Aug, 2021 - 9 min read

Fossil fuels v cows: Climate scientists’ “strong, rapid and sustained” methane challenge to Irish agri-food

The urgent need to stop carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is nothing new, but farmers and food processors were hoping the different gas released by livestock could be stabilised. The IPCC’s new report shows it must go down too.

Thomas Hubert
10th Aug, 2021 - 6 min read

Hope amid the inaction: Threats and opportunities in the climate whirlwind

Despite abundant knowledge on what needs to be done to stop global warming, it is not happening for the simple reason that nobody wants to do it. Humanity’s next best chance lies in technology.

Stephen Kinsella
5th Aug, 2021 - 7 min read

Dublin firm wins million-dollar funding to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere

Carbon Collect is the brainchild of Irish entrepreneurs and former oil executives. It has now secured US government backing to tackle greenhouse gases with its “mechanical trees”.

John Reynolds
18th Jun, 2021 - 3 min read

Concrete plans: Backed by Bill Gates, valued at €200m, Ecocem now wants to deliver on its potential

When he started his low-carbon cement manufacturing company 20 years ago, Donal O’Riain freely admits that the timing was wrong. Now high-profile investors are injecting millions into Ecocem’s promise to fix one of the world’s worst-polluting industries.

Thomas Hubert
19th May, 2021 - 7 min read

We need a new institution to solve climate change via technology, green innovation, and SME dynamism

Multiple assessments of the Irish economy agree that the long-term issues facing us are intergenerational inequality, firms dealing with technological change, and climate change. Here is how we can tackle them.

Stephen Kinsella
13th May, 2021 - 7 min read
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