Poor weather played havoc with plans to light up Galway as part of the international Day of Climate Action.
The global initiative, which saw 181 countries participating, was co-ordinated by the organisation 350.org which is dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis.
Galway activists planned to light up Shop Street with night lights in the shape of 350. However prevailing blustery weather conditions prevented the night-lights from being lit. Nonetheless the initiative drew considerable attention from those passing near the Oscar Wilde statue on Saturday evening, where the event took place.
In South Africa climbers with banners dangled beneath cable cars on Table Mountain, while in Paris banners with the crucial 350 number were highly visible beneath the Eiffel Tower.
Closer to home there was a screening of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth in the Community Hall on Clare Island, while one man in Castlebar simply decided to renege on all electricity use for the day.
www.350.org symbolises the number that many scientists and climate experts believe is the safe upper limit for CO2 in the atmosphere.
