The second part of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) concluded in Rome after intense negotiations. This meeting followed the failure of the first part of COP16, held in Cali, Colombia, in November 2024, to reach a resolution. The Read more…
Ciaran Brennan Europe has taken a step towards a more sustainable and fair agriculture system that will work with and for nature with the publication of the final report from the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture. Presenting Read more…
Ciaran Brennan Nature is on its knees – globally and here in Ireland. Five years have passed since Dáil Éireann declared a national climate and biodiversity crisis. Since then, we’ve had a Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss whose report made159 Read more…
Slieve Beagh is an upland area which straddles the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, spread across the counties of Tyrone, Fermanagh and Monaghan. The area is steeped in local myth and legend. It is also home Read more…
What happens to a lot of your old clothes when you recycle them? Solene Schirrer from Voice Ireland dives deep into the world of textile recycling to uncover the fate of some of our discarded clothes. Ghana’s sea shore is Read more…
Dummy’s Lough, two kilometres northwest of Clones in Co Monaghan, looks like any other lake in rural Ireland. It is one of four lakes in the Kilroosky Lough cluster, nestling in farmland and surrounded by pockets of woodland. Dummy’s Lough Read more…
The year closed with COP28 being hailed as the beginning of the end of fossil fuels. Theresa O’Donohoe from Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, who was at the conference, casts a critical eye on two weeks of Read more…
What role can faith communities and institutions play in moving the question of climate finance, including through mobilising their own investments? This was a question which was addressed by Lorna Gold, Chief Executive of FaithInvest, an international not-for-profit network of religious Read more…
By Jack O’Donovan Trá A coalition of Ireland’s leading environmental NGOs has strongly criticised the government for failing to publish key legislation that would protect Irish seas and help tackle the twin climate and biodiversity crises. Presenting a petition of Read more…
21 November 2023 By Fintan Kelly and Ciaran Brennan There has been a lot of noise around the Nature Restoration Law, most of it coming from expected quarters. Urging MEPs to oppose the law which was agreed earlier this month Read more…
