April 30th, 2018 Governments are meeting for the next round of UN climate change negotiations over the following fortnight to further develop guidelines for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. Countries will meet from 30 April to 10 May to accelerate and complete their work to put in place Read more…
April 27th, 2018 An environmental coalition has called on Michel Barnier to stress the need for a solution to the border issue post-Brexit that maintains full alignment of environmental rules on the island of Ireland. The EU’s top Brexit negotiator will be in Ireland on Monday to give a keynote address Read more…
April 27th, 2018 EU governments passed a near-total ban earlier this morning of the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on outdoor crops due to their impact on pollinators. Member States endorsed the European Commission’s proposals to completely ban the outdoor uses of three active substances – clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam. Two Read more…
April 26th, 2018 The State looks set to drop compostable single-use coffee cups from its proposed latte levy, the Environment Minister has told the Dail. Speaking in the Dail yesterday, Minister Denis Naughten, TD said that his department no longer plans to introduce a levy on compostable coffee cups as Read more…
April 25th, 2018 The Irish state is failing in its duty to fully implement European Directives vital to protect numerous threatened species and habitats on our island, a new report has found. The report from BirdLife Europe, WWF, European Environmental Bureau and Friends of the Earth Europe gave 18 EU Read more…
April 23rd, 2018 The agri-food sector continues to struggle with environmental regulatory compliance issues, the latest worst offender’s list from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows. The National Priority Sites List for October 2017 to March 2018 lists seven Irish industrial facilities that have had major environmental regulatory compliance issues over the Read more…
April 23rd, 2018 Thousands of shoppers across the country left their unwanted plastic packaging at their local supermarkets in the Sick of Plastic day of action on Saturday. Extra bins could be seen at major supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi, which were set up for customers to Shop and Drop Read more…
April 23rd, 2018 Hundreds of University College Cork students signed a Waste Reduction Bill to mark the national Sick of Plastic Day of Action on campus last Friday. UCC Green Campus teamed up with the campus’s Boole Library staff to organise the bill-signing event ahead of the ‘shop and drop’ Read more…
April 19th, 2018 Global call to support the effort to eliminate single-use plastics set to be the main driver during Earth Day 2018 this Sunday. Earth Day Network, the organization that leads Earth Day worldwide, announced that Earth Day 2018 will focus on mobilizing the world to End Plastic Pollution. The Read more…
According to the latest Energy in the Residential Sector report by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), the average household uses seven per cent more energy than the EU average. Moreover, Ireland’s household Co2 emissions are the highest in the EU, the report finds, up to 58 per cent higher than Read more…
