May 15th, 2019 None of the 17 schools identified for energy efficiency upgrades as part of a Government pilot project are slated to have their heating schemes upgraded to non-fossil fuel systems. The schools in five counties are set to benefit from €7 million in funding to help reduce energy Read more…
April 23rd, 2018 Hundreds of University College Cork students signed a Waste Reduction Bill to mark the national Sick of Plastic Day of Action on campus last Friday. UCC Green Campus teamed up with the campus’s Boole Library staff to organise the bill-signing event ahead of the ‘shop and drop’ Read more…
October 1st, 2017 In her opening address yesterday morning, the chair of the Citizens’ Assembly, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, lauded the public’s engagement in the run-up to this weekend’s discussion on how Ireland can lead on tackling climate change. She said that the level of citizen engagement has been “unprecedented Read more…
September 29th, 2019 It is “crazy” for the Government to continue to subsidise peat-fired electricity, the chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) has said. Speaking at the Environment Ireland conference in Croke Park yesterday, Professor John Fitzgerald called for more urgent action to tackle climate change that poses Read more…
September 13th, 2017 Jean-Claude Juncker’s renewed call for Europe to lead the fight against climate change is meaningless without concrete commitment for higher emission cuts, Europe’s leading environmental NGO has said. The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) was responding to comments made by the European Commission President during his State of Read more…
August 30th, 2017 The Government’s long-awaited new renewable energy scheme must include support for household solar power, says one of Ireland’s leading climate policy analysts. A new cost-benefit analysis by Joseph Curtin, a research fellow at both the International and European Affairs and University College Cork, finds that solar panels Read more…
August 12th, 2017 Climate change is unequivocally one of the most pressing international concerns of our time. It comes then as no surprise that the Citizens’ Assembly will next examine the question: How the State can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change. The task of trying to answer Read more…
July 20th, 2017 The long-awaited National Mitigation Plan has been met with widespread criticism from environmental organisations and opposition parties for its lack of ambition or meaningful targets. The Plan, released yesterday, outlines policy measures to tackle Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions in line with EU and international obligations and meet Read more…
3rd July 2017 The Northern Ireland Government acted unlawfully by not stopping sand dredging at Lough Neagh, the Court of Appeal has found. Environmental group Friends of the Earth took the Department of the Environment to court for its failure to stop up to two million tonnes of sand being Read more…
June 28th, 2017 The historic Bill to ban onshore fracking in the Republic of Ireland has passed through the Oireachtas today. The Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016 will now move on to the President for signing after it passed its final stage in Read more…
