30 July 2021 When the landmark Climate Case was first heard in 2019, the court room looked a lot different from other proceedings taking place that day. It was, in the words of Dr. Andrew Jackson, like “all of life was there” in the High Court. All of the seats Read more…
1 July 2021 In July 2020, history was made when Friends of the Irish Environment challenged the Government in the Supreme Court – and won. Climate Case Ireland was a landmark legal action taken by Friends of the Irish Environment. It wasthe first case in Ireland in which citizens fought Read more…
10 June 2021 Climate Case Ireland have penned an open letter to the Irish Government calling for a Citizens’ Assembly on the biodiversity crisis and the constitutional right to a healthy and sustainable environment. The organisation that successfully won a landmark case against the Government last summer presented the letter Read more…
27 May 2021 Yesterday was a monumental day in climate news. Investors from Chevron put pressure on the company to cut its emissions. Directors demanding climate action ended up on the official board of Exxon Mobil. Over in The Hague, a Dutch court ruled that Shell had to cut emissions Read more…
8 March 2021 Campaigners have warned that the delay in publishing the landmark Climate Bill could signal a late effort to “water it down”. Friends of the Earth Ireland said that any talk of the Bill appearing before St Patrick’s Day has stopped, despite the fact that Minister for Climate Read more…
20 November 2020 If passed as is, the Climate Bill will prove to be fatally weak and will undermine this year’s landmark Supreme Court judgment, Climate Case Ireland have warned. Campaigners behind the historic case against the Irish government said today that the Bill must “urgently be revised” and have Read more…
December 13th, 2019 Climate litigation and activism are the key tools to push policymakers to take concrete action to tackle the growing threat of climate disruption, attendees at COP25 in Madrid have heard. Speaking at an event on climate litigation yesterday, Sadhbh O’Neill of Friends of the Irish Environment said Read more…
January 25th, 2019 The State’s “disturbing” climate performance leaves us completely off course to meet the very emissions targets that its key climate plan is meant to set the roadmap to achieve, the High Court has heard. The court is currently hearing a landmark climate case brought by Friends of Read more…
January 25th, 2019 A “generalised deterioration of the environment” caused by climate change is not enough to show that the State’s key climate plan is in breach of constitutional and human rights, the High Court has heard. The court is currently hearing a landmark climate case brought by Friends of Read more…
January 24th, 2019 An environmental group’s argument that the State’s key climate plan impinges on citizens’ human rights should be discarded as it does not have the legal standing to do so, the High Court heard today. The court is currently hearing a landmark climate case brought by Friends of the Read more…
