More than 40 activists occupied the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment in Dublin on Friday for almost two hours, and called on the Government to accelerate progress in adopting climate action legislation. The occupation, coinciding with the COP24 global climate talks in Katowice, Poland, ended after the department general secretary Mark Griffin undertook to deliver a list of demands to Minister Richard Bruton, who was not in the department at the time. Among 22 demands was a call for the prompt enactment of three climate action bills currently before Dáil Éireann. Climate justiceEoghan Ó Ceannabháin of People Before Profit said their protest was far from over. We have very little time, as little as 12 years, to mitigate the damage caused by humankind to the climate and the planet.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2018 18:56 UTC