November 19th, 2018 Protesters gathered across Irish cities this weekend to demand an end to Government inaction to tackle climate change and for leaders to address unprecedented species extinction on our planet. The demonstrations held in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Belfast saw citizens’ strongly voicing their environmental concerns and frustrations. Read more…
November 16th, 2018 RTÉ’s flagship radio show devotes less than one per cent of its broadcast to environmental issues, new research from an environmental NGO has found. Gluaiseacht analysed two weeks of broadcasts from Morning Ireland, Ireland’s most popular morning radio program, finding that just 0.92 per cent of the Read more…
November 16th, 2018 Large numbers are expected to join demonstrations across Ireland tomorrow to highlight the environmental crises currently facing the planet. The family-friendly events taking place tomorrow at 2pm in Belfast, Cork, Dublin, and Galway are part of an International Day of Action with similar protests taking place across Read more…
November 12th, 2018 A science fair introduced the notion of climate change and sustainable energy to youngsters in Cork yesterday. The festival, hosted by Science Foundation Ireland, had various educational stalls to show the impact of climate change to children through fun, scientific experimentation. Dr Paul Bolger, UCC’s Environmental Research Read more…
November 8th, 2018 The Green Party has launched a Just Transition Bill to encourage a move to a sustainable, climate-friendly economy “as quickly and as fairly as possible”, the party’s leader said yesterday. The Just Transition concept calls for a swift move away from a fossil fuel economy to a Read more…
7th November 2018 Tackling the challenge of climate change will require a “revolution in how we live”, says new Minister for Climate Action and Environment in his maiden speech. Speaking at the EU Climate-KIC Summit, yesterday, Richard Bruton said that the most pressing action for the State is to set Read more…
November 1st, 2018 The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment has concluded that the Irish Government has “clear, positive, and enforceable obligations” to protect against breaches of human rights by climate change. Affirming arguments made in a High Court legal case against the State taken by Friends of Read more…
Eating less meat is crucial to prevent a climate catastrophe, a new study has found. The study in the journal Nature counts deforestation, water paucity and the accumulation of greenhouse gases released by livestock as some of the negative consequences of a high demand for meat. Researchers behind the study Read more…
October 18th, 2018 Hundreds of citizens held a demonstration in front of Dáil Éireann on Tuesday to demand rapid and ambitious action from the Irish Government to tackle climate change. The public demonstration, organised by the Dublin Ecofeminist Collective and co-hosted by the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, Young Friends of the Read more…
October 11th, 2018 A landmark climate decision in the Dutch courts has ruled that the Government must reduce its emissions by 25 per cent by 2020. Yesterday, the Hague Court of Appeal upheld the historic victory of the Urgenda Foundation and 886 Dutch citizens in their climate case against the Read more…
