11 February 2021 A grassroots group known as “Stop CETA Ireland” has launched a campaign to stop the Irish government from ratifying the controversial Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada. The campaign started to take shape on social media earlier this month, and has since started Read more…
4 February 2021 Last week, the Department of Housing published a report on expanding our Marine Protected Area (MPA) network here in Ireland. Which, naturally, got us thinking about them, and we wanted to find out more. What does the picture look like for MPAs right now? Why are they Read more…
2 February 2021 The Cabinet has signed off on introducing legislation to ban new applications for gas and oil exploration licences. Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan gave effect to this commitment immediately, and new applications for exploration licences will be not accepted nor will there be any future licencing Read more…
2 February 2021 Over the past couple of months, you might have heard quite a bit about water abstraction. So what exactly is it, why is it important, and why are we hearing lots about it? We wanted to find out – so we called up Dr. Elaine McGoff from Read more…
29 January 2021 The first episode of Shaping New Mountains dropped today, and safe to say, we are excited. Irish Wildlife Trust Campaign Officer and ecologist Padraic Fogarty hosts and spear-headed the series, and it took two years to put together. It’s a follow-up from his book Whittled Away, and Read more…
29 January 2021 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) released their early estimates for 2020 greenhouse gas emissions today – and there is a lot to unpack in it. So we did a fine-tooth comb of the report this morning, and also revisited Read more…
27 January 2021 If you’ve got a hawk-eye watch on climate news, you probably heard about Bord na Móna’s game-changing announcement earlier this month. But just in case you missed it, we’ll catch you up. Bord na Móna have officially ended peat extraction on their own land. The semi-state body Read more…
19 January 2021 A formal complaint against the ESB has been lodged today in regards to imported coal from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia. Filed by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) through Ireland’s National Contact Point to the OECD, the complaint alleges that the ESB has breached its human Read more…
18 January 2021 Modest increases in EU climate finance in recent years are insufficient and the bloc must redouble its efforts, according to a new report. Act Alliance EU, a coalition of European faith-based development and humanitarian agencies, issued the call today in a climate finance report which examined such Read more…
We wanted to find out more about environmental justice in Ireland, so we called up Rose Wall, the Chief Executive Officer of Community Law & Mediation (CLM). CLM are opening their very own Centre for Environmental Justice, which will focus on working with communities experiencing poverty, social exclusion or inequality Read more…
