'Off the chart' emissions here add to climate change poverty

International aid charity Goal is working at Gambella on the Ethiopia-South Sudan border, providing nutrition and other services at a refugee camp home to 36,000 people.

Paul Melia

The 'average' Irish person emits 70 times more carbon than those living in Ethiopia or Malawi, countries which are already affected by climate change.

A new report from Trócaire, published in advance of the Citizens' Assembly this weekend, says that emissions are "off the charts" and are contributing to hunger and a loss of water in some of the poorest countries across the globe.