5 April 2022 The third and final Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group report landed yesterday late afternoon – and we took some time last night to go through it. The report is the third of its kind – the first one back in November looked at the Read more…
7 December 2021 Independent Senator Lynn Ruane recently brought forward a Companies Emissions Reporting Bill – which would do what it says on the tin: companies with over 50 employees would have to document their own emissions of greenhouse gases. And if passed, the Bill wouldn’t cover just the emissions Read more…
30 March 2021 Fossil fuel subsidies amounted to €2.4 billion in 2019, a one per cent increase from 2018. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) released the figure today as part of its fossil fuel subsidies statement, and also found that the total amount of subsidies allocated to fossil fuels have Read more…
December 20th, 2018 For two weeks at the start of December, the international community gathered – as they do each year – to agree on how to deal with the impending climate catastrophe. The talks this year happened against a world which has darkened considerably since the Paris Agreement was Read more…
September 25th, 2018 Current plans to electrify the Irish fleet may lead to a 70 per cent fall in transport emissions from 2015 levels, new research shows. The analysis carried out by the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy at University College Cork (UCC), however, also indicates that this could Read more…
August 30th, 2018 The Green Party has called for a complete overhaul of the National Development Plan following the Minister for Climate Action’s admission that current policies to tackle rising emissions are failing. In an interview with The Irish Times published today, Denis Naughten, TD admits that the State’s National Read more…
August 15th, 2018 The Green Party has criticised the Government of failing to connect transport and planning infrastructure following the publication of the Transport Trends 2018 Report. The report sets out developments within the transport sector using the latest available data as the number of people commuting to work grew to 1.88 million in 2016. Two-thirds of this Read more…
July 24th, 2018 Meat and dairy companies are set to replace oil companies as the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, according to a new international report. The joint analysis from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and GRAIN examined the climate impact of the planet’s thirty-five largest meat and dairy companies. Researchers claim that the top Read more…
May 31st, 2018 New data reveals that Ireland’s emissions are set to rise until at least 2020 due to strong economic growth and an expansion of the agriculture sector. The latest figures, released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, suggest that Ireland will only be able to reduce its Read more…
According to the latest Energy in the Residential Sector report by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), the average household uses seven per cent more energy than the EU average. Moreover, Ireland’s household Co2 emissions are the highest in the EU, the report finds, up to 58 per cent higher than Read more…
