Matt Cooper

Now, as I was saying, John Gibbons is on a well-deserved holiday.

So Saif O'Neill is with us, the climate environmental researcher who is a contributor to the Irish Times.

Saif, the first thing I want to ask you about is this report published this week from the Climate Change Advisory Council about coastal erosion and the possibility that we're going to lose a lot of properties and road over the next 20 to 25 years.

Tell us all about this, please.

In relation to those houses, I wonder how do they manage even to get home insurance to protect against damage?

And if these people look to sell their properties, would anyone be in a position to buy them?

Would they be able to get a loan or insurance if they were to purchase those properties?

Yeah, it's interesting though, that's for individual homeowners, but local authorities and the National Roads Authority presumably have responsibilities for the 570 kilometres of road identified.

And if anyone has been dismissive of that, I suppose we can point out the issues that we've had, for example, on the train line going down the east coast to Greystones and beyond.

OK, something else that's come up this week has been in relation to habitat destruction in Ireland, that apparently it has almost doubled without any increase in prosecutions.

These are figures that have been obtained by the Social Democrats TD Liam Quaid from the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

Tell us a bit more about this.

And burning of land and vegetation, which is a popular one as well, isn't it?

Yeah, but does that then lead to prosecutions?

Saif, I suspect, though, that the majority of landowners do want to protect and care for their land, mainly farmers and whatever.

But there is a minority who might think, it's my land, I'll do whatever I want with it.

OK, we're going to have a big preview of the World Cup after six o'clock, which starts this evening.

But you've had a little bit of a look at the climate cost of this expanded World Cup, because given that it's in three countries, Canada, Mexico, the United States, but spread over those three countries, it means an enormous amount of travel, not just by the teams, but by supporters as well.

What are the implications of that?

Well, I'll just give you one example, Si, sorry, the England fans and the England team.