Radio and TV shows do not have to give airtime to climate change deniers or doubters to provide balanced coverage of the issue, the industry regulator has said.
"When your house is on fire, you don't wait a few more years to start putting it out. And yet this is what the Commission is proposing today," Thunberg told the European Parliament's environment committee.
Firefighters battling wildfires in Australia made the most of cooler weather on Sunday to access badly burnt towns and contain blazes before the expected return of hotter conditions at the end of the week.
Since Ireland's contribution to the world's carbon emissions is tiny, whatever efforts can be made in this country will have a negligible direct effect.
The Earth's life-support systems are reaching a crisis point for humanity, with up to one million species facing extinction due to human activity, a UN study will reportedly warn.
