August 14th, 2017 The Irish Citizens Assembly will be putting deliberative democracy to the test very soon in relation to Ireland’s implementation of environmental policy. The Assembly closed submissions for ‘How the State can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change’ last Friday. The Environmental Pillar made a detailed Read more…
August 12th, 2017 Climate change is unequivocally one of the most pressing international concerns of our time. It comes then as no surprise that the Citizens’ Assembly will next examine the question: How the State can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change. The task of trying to answer Read more…
August 11th, 2017 A leaked federal climate science report reveals how serious the impacts of climate change have already been in the US and will give Trump and his administration a new headache. The 673-page report was prepared by 50 leading scientists from 13 federal agencies – including the National Read more…
August 9th, 2017 New EU emissions standards to tackle pollution from large combustion plants could “herald the closure” of Moneypoint power station, one of Ireland’s leading environmental NGOs has said. Good Energies Alliance Ireland (GEAI) praised the adoption of new European Commission rules that will force Europe’s power plants to Read more…
August 3rd, 2017 Future climate change is expected to cause about 60,000 additional deaths from air pollution in the year 2030 and 260,000 deaths in 2100, new research has found. The study, published in Nature Climate Change is one of the most comprehensive of its kind to date, using data from several Read more…
August 2nd, 2017 There is only a five per cent chance of meeting the Paris Agreement target of limiting the increase in global temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, a new US-based study has found. The Paris Agreement set two major temperature goals: a long-term goal of keeping the increase Read more…
July 28th, 2017 Fine Gael TD Noel Rock and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan have voiced their support for the total phase-out of petrol and diesel vehicles on Irish roads. These comments follow plans from both the UK and France to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars in Read more…
July 27th, 2017 The Chair of the Citizens’ Assembly has called for an additional weekend to “truly do justice” to the complicated question of how Ireland can lead in tackling climate change. Ms Justice Mary Laffoy said that the decision will allow the Assembly to fully consider one of the “most complex topics Read more…
July 26th, 2017 The Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) has warned that Ireland’s near certain failure to meet our 2020 emissions targets will impact on our longer term decarbonisation plans. In its first major report released today, the Council states that Ireland is “unlikely” to meet its 2020 emissions target Read more…
July 21st, 2017 There was widespread media coverage last week as scientists warned that a sixth mass extinction is underway due to a “biological annihilation” of wildlife in recent decades. According to the new study, human overpopulation and overconsumption are driving the loss of species and ecosystems around the world. Read more…
