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Irish climate expert Dr Tara Shine has been appointed to a senior UN role with a brief to improve co-ordination between climate scientists and policymakers in meeting key Paris Agreement targets on containing global temperature rise.

Change by Degrees is a finalist in the Sockies 2020 Awards in the category of Small Business Video Campaign for our Plastic Free 4 Kids programme.

Madeleine is representing Change by Degrees as a finalist in the Network Ireland Awards 2020 in the category of Emerging New Business. It is an honour to have won the Cork branch round and we look forward to the national awards this October 2nd.

“Are we going to say the Anthropocene was the time that humans destroyed the planet,” Shine said. “ Or are we going to say it was the time that humans nearly destroyed the planet and just pulled it back from the brink?”

On Wednesday 2nd September Nationwide on RTE 1 included a feature filmed in Kinsale with Tara as she helps a family to live more sustainably, drawing on her book ‘How to Save Your Planet One Object At A Time’.

Two West Cork business women are celebrating after they each picked up Network Cork Businesswoman of the Year Awards at a virtual awards ceremony that took place this afternoon.

In this year’s Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution, three expert scientists from different fields will present a unique ‘user’s guide’ to Planet Earth.

This week, we launch the first instalment of our three-part series with Dr Tara Shine.

Dr Tara Shine was interviewed by Sean O’Rourke on Today with Sean O’Rourke on RTE Radio One.

The Weekend Review on the “Greens in government” (May 16th) was very well presented with excellent articles by Kevin O’Sullivan, Fintan O’Toole, Pat Leahy, Cliff Taylor and others.