7 July 2020 The outlook of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminals is “tenuous” and “continues to worsen” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and growing concern about the industry’s climate impact, new international analysis reveals. Following a worldwide survey of LNG terminals in May of this year, Global Energy Read more…
Ireland has been referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) following its longstanding failure to designate Special Areas of Conservation. Over 400 sites in Ireland do not have “the necessary conservation measures” according to the European Commission and the State has missed the relevant deadline for the Read more…
March 9th, 2020 Thousands of European scientists have declared that the European Commission’s proposals for the next round of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must be drastically improved to reverse environmental damage and restore biodiversity. Over 3,600 scientists from across the bloc, including 58 from Ireland, have signed an open Read more…
March 6th, 2020 An Irish anti-fracking campaigner joined other activists, healthcare professionals and NGOs in New York this week to meet UN officials over their concerns with the controversial energy source. Joining residents and campaigners from New York and Pennsylvania on Thursday, Eddie Mitchell of Love Leitrim met with Satya Read more…
March 5th, 2020 The European Commission has outlined its long-awaited proposal to enshrine the EU’s 2050 climate neutral commitment in law that critics say is simply too little, too late to avert the climate crisis. The European body argues that the European Climate Law – the heart of the European Read more…
March 2nd, 2020 The European Commission has found that the Climate Action Plan could be a “breakthrough” in the low carbon transition in Ireland but only with significant policy and financial support over the coming decades. The Commission’s 2020 Country Report states that the Climate Action Plan is a “much Read more…
February 12th, 2020 Fine Gael MEP Maria Walsh broke party lines this morning and voted with her “conscience” in favour of a motion that would have blocked the EU’s new priority energy list that includes over 50 new fossil fuel projects. The European Parliament ultimately voted down the motion to Read more…
February 12th, 2020 The European Parliament today backed the EU’s list of priority energy projects that includes dozens of gas schemes critics say are incompatible with the bloc’s climate ambitions. This morning, the Parliament voted down a motion – 169 in favour, 443 against – to veto the Commission’s Projects Read more…
January 22nd, 2020 The European Parliament’s Energy Committee today voted down a motion to reject the EU’s list of priority energy projects that includes dozens of gas schemes critics say are incompatible with the bloc’s climate ambitions. Inclusion on the Projects of Commons Interest (PCI) list gives large-scale energy projects Read more…
December 23rd, 2019 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on the Government to consider halting coal purchases from the ESB’s largest supplier in Colombia over human rights concerns. In its latest periodic report on Ireland, the committee said that it was concerned that Cerrejón mine Read more…
