The UN's climate change summit is underway in Egypt with a warning that our planet is "sending a distress signal".
More than 120 world leaders, including Taoiseach Micheal Martin, are due to arrive at the summit known as COP27 for two weeks of negotiations between countries on climate action.
Speaking yesterday, the Fianna Fail leader told world leaders that while they have made progress on the climate crisis “it is far from enough”.
His comments followed an announcement that Ireland will give €10 million to a new global fund to help countries “suffering loss and damage as a result of climate change”.
With sea levels on the rise around the globe amid climate change and global warming, a report has found coastlines could rise by as much as 30 centimetres by the year 2030.
The risk of rising sea levels and increased flooding threatens to have a dramatic impact on Ireland's coastlines over the coming decades.
A map showing how much of Ireland could be underwater by 2050 has a number of major cities in trouble, including Dublin, Cork and Galway.
Climate Central, a US-based non-profit that reports on climate news, based the findings on land projected to be below annual flood level in 2050.
Dublin
Cork
Galway
Clare and Limerick
Donegal and Tyrone
You can check your own area by using the interactive Climate Central map HERE.
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