November 8th, 2019 If I ever tell you that it will only take an hour to interview you, you have my permission to call me a liar to my face. No interview recorded on location ever takes less than three hours, no matter what the producer will tell you beforehand. Read more…
May 7th, 2019 Last week, Wicklow became the first County Council in Ireland to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency. The resolution came hot on the heels of the Welsh, Scottish and UK governments own declarations of climate emergencies earlier in the week. The declaration of an emergency was one Read more…
March 20th, 2019 Two newly formed environmental groups will host a talk on small scale farming, climate change and biodiversity decline at a sustainable farming event at Cloughjordan Ecovillage this weekend. Both Talamh Beo and Extinction Rebellion will hold a group conversation on the Saturday evening of the weekend-long Feeding Read more…
February 21st, 2019 Our outdated prescriptive and rule-based one size fits all agri-environmental payment system needs to be replaced by schemes focused on delivering results, a biodiversity conference has heard. This week’s first-ever national biodiversity conference is examining ways in which Ireland’s agricultural sector – grassland makes up roughly 60 Read more…
February 21st, 2019 The voices of conservationists, environmental NGOs and biodiversity specialists must be prioritised in the face of the extinction crisis currently facing the world, the President has said. Speaking at Ireland’s first ever biodiversity conference this morning, Michael D Higgins told the audience that the timeframe to transform Read more…
February 2oth, 2019 The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has called on the Minister for Heritage to act now and prioritise tackling Ireland’s worsening extinction crisis as the National Biodiversity Conference kicks off this morning. While the conservation group said that it was looking forward to participating in the sell-out conference Read more…
February 8th, 2019 Europe needs a “fundamental rethinking” in terms of environmental protection if the bloc is serious about protecting our natural capital and biodiversity, a leading EU environmental expert has said. Opening a conference in DCU this morning, Dr Hans Bruyninckx, the executive director of the European Environment Agency, Read more…
March 31st, 2018 Biodiversity is declining in every region of the world, impacting nature’s capacity to provide food, water, and safety to people, four UN-backed science reports have warned. The analysis from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is the result of three years of work Read more…
September 25th, 2017 An All-Ireland environmental NGO coalition is in Brussels this week to voice concerns over the impact Brexit may have on cross-border cooperation to protect the environment. As the fourth round of Brexit negotiations get underway, representatives from the Environmental Pillar and Northern Ireland Environmental Link are set Read more…
The heritage organisation has dismissed the campaign as ’empty PR’, while the semi-state company continues to extract peat on an industrial scale, in what An Taisce’s Climate Change Committee spokesperson John Gibbons describes as ‘one of the least sustainable and most environmentally unfriendly industries on the face of the planet’.
