Nearly three decades after the world banned chemicals that were destroying the atmosphere’s protective ozone layer, signs of recovery have been welcomed by Irish scientists.

In Brexit fallout news, EU governments might not see the publication of the Commission's climate change proposals by July 20, as expected.

The first signs of healing of the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica have been detected by researchers.

Ireland is "remarkably" prone to droughts and there is a "high likelihood they will occur again", despite the storms and extreme rainfall experienced in recent years.

The UK government won high praise six months ago for taking a leading role in the successful Paris climate change agreement, the first legally binding commitment on curbing carbon emissions by all 195 United Nations countries.

Norway has become the first industrialised nation to formally ratify the Paris Agreement, after its ambassador Geir Pederson deposited its "instrument of ratification" to the UN's climate change Secretariat last week.

On 22 June 2016, Energy Union Vice-President Maroš Šefcovic and Michael R. Bloomberg, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change and founder of Bloomberg LP, announced the launch of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy in Brussels.

The relationship between energy and the environment will be one of the defining issues of the 21st Century.