September 18th, 2019 Dublin City University has joined University College Cork in urging its staff and students to join the global school strike against climate inaction this Friday. In an email sent to staff this afternoon seen by The Green News, the university’s chief operations officer Dr Declan Raftery invited Read more…
September 18th, 2019 The Minister for Climate Action’s claim that agriculture is our greatest carbon sink is a “misleading soundbite” that ignores the latest data outlining the land-use sector as a net emitter, An Taisce has said. In the building up to this week’s National Ploughing Championships, Richard Bruton TD Read more…
September 17th, 2019 The decision of thermoplastic company RTP Company to withdraw its application for a plastic factory in Skibbereen was greeted by local campaigners last night as a “brilliant example of people power”. Local campaigners at SOS Skibbereen had challenged the green light given to RTP’s Irish subsidiary Daly Read more…
September 16th, 2019 Almost 20 Irish academics have signed an open letter “wholeheartedly” supporting the global climate strike movement whose concerns rest on “solid, incontrovertible evidence” of a climate breakdown. The international letter is currently signed by over 800 academics mainly from across Europe as they outline their support for Read more…
September 13th, 2019 Up to 95 per cent of the Irish population now view climate change as a serious problem, a new European poll has revealed. According to the bloc’s latest Eurobarometer series, over a quarter (26 per cent) also believe climate change to be the single most serious problem Read more…
The planning authority has refused the State’s plan to relocate nine turf cutters from a protected high bog in Co Kildare to a nearby undesignated site in the county over climate concerns. The proposal was part of the State’s relocation scheme for turf cutters who are required to cease cutting Read more…
September 11th, 2019 A challenge from an environmental NGO in relation to the lack of public access to documents for legal cases has been referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). The case stems from a 2016 request from Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) for access Read more…
10 September 2019: The detection of Cryptosporidium in public drinking water supplies has increased over the past three years, a new Environmental Protection Agency report has found. An analysis of the quality of public drinking water supplies in 2018 shows that while overall quality remains high, the incidence of Cryptosporidium Read more…
September 3rd, 2019 Weak implementation of afforestation guidelines and regulations was identified as a key concern for respondents to a UCD-led study on forestry policy in Co Leitrim. The survey was conducted as part of an independent study released yesterday by the Department of Agriculture to assess the social and Read more…
September 2nd, 2019 The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has called for a radical overhaul of our forestry sector toward a focus on native species rich continuous cover woodland following the release of the Government’s new planting targets. The conservation group’s call follows the announcement that 22 million trees will need Read more…
