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Majority believe climate change should be a high Government priority

10 December 2021  The vast majority of Irish people believe climate change should be a high priority for the Government, according to a new study.  An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) survey published today, the most comprehensive of its kind to date, revealed a number of findings regarding the public’s beliefs Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 1 yearDecember 10, 2021 ago
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What were some key trends in the latest EPA report?

22 October 2021 The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest projections on greenhouse gas emissions for 2020 are out – and we took the day to dive into them and pull out some key points. As always there were negative trends and some pockets of improvement but overall – we’re nowhere near Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 2 yearsOctober 22, 2021 ago
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The 2020 emissions projections: a deep dive

29 January 2021  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) released their early estimates for 2020 greenhouse gas emissions today – and there is a lot to unpack in it.  So we did a fine-tooth comb of the report this morning, and also revisited Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 2 yearsJanuary 29, 2021 ago
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EPA: Ireland drifting away from climate commitments

October 23rd, 2019 Ireland exceeded its annual EU emissions budget by over five million tonnes last year, new data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reveals. Provisional data released by the environmental watchdog shows that our overall emissions dropped by just 0.2 per cent in 2018 to 60.5 million tonnes, Read more…

By Niall Sargent, 4 yearsOctober 23, 2019 ago
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