Kathriona Devereux: Joe Biden needs to keep full steam ahead to fulfil climate promise
There are nine years left to cut emissions drastically and climate meetings and pledges are only the first steps, so says Kathriona Devereux in her weekly column
President Joe Biden speaks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Kathriona Devereux
FOR the past few weeks, I’ve been busy organising documentary shoots in New York for an upcoming RTÉ series.
In normal times, we would have flown the Irish director and cameraman to New York to film it, but because of Covid we have to hire local crew and shoot the whole thing remotely via Zoom. Good for our carbon footprints — no transatlantic flights — but bad for our blood pressure — the five hour time difference is a killer and Zoom cannot replace the human connection.