The past eight years are on track to be the warmest on record and scientists say that the temperature is currently 1.15C above pre-industrial levels.
presenter Shane Coleman has said.
At Paris in 2015, leaders agreed to"pursue efforts" to keep it below 1.5C but Shane does not believe that they are likely to succeed.A post shared by Newstalk “Nothing will change and I just fear we as humans - and I include myself in this - are just too selfish to make the kind of changes to save the planet. Selfish.”Taoiseach Micheál Martin has travelled to Egypt with a delegation, describing climate change as “ the single greatest challenge the world faces”.
“Many of these vulnerable countries lack the resources they need to deal with the challenges they face.
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