July 18th, 2019 Agri-food companies have dominated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) worst offender’s list for licence compliance issues over the past two years, new data reveals. To date, the environmental watchdog has issued nine National Priority Sites (NPS) lists targetting industrial facilities that had major environmental regulatory compliance issues Read more…
June 5th, 2019 Each year, the United Nations-led World Environment Day picks a specific theme that warrants awareness-raising globally. In 2019, air pollution is taking centre stage. Not surprisingly, the main event to kick off the day is being held in China, a country renowned for its air pollution problems. Read more…
September 13th, 2018 Most European Union countries are failing to meet the bloc’s air quality standards, a new report has revealed. The report released this week by the European Court of Auditors (ECA), the bloc’s financial watchdog, shows that exposure to high levels of particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ground-level Read more…
August 17th, 2018 A new European survey has revealed that a long weekend visit to Dublin has the same impact on our health as smoking one cigarette due to air pollution. The Brussels-based NGO Transport and Environment ranked Europe’s most popular and most polluted cities to show people the potential Read more…
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In its 2009 bid to host this year’s Olympic games, Rio aspired to host a “Green games for a Blue Planet”, committing to offsetting carbon emissions from those travelling to the games, reducing congestion on the roads, cleaning up local water bodies, improving amenities in the favelas and preserving nature. Seven years later, and with the Olympics in full swing, the Brazilian capital has fallen short on delivering the “most sustainable games in history”.
5th of July, 2016 The World Health Organisation (WHO) have published a report during the first trimester of 2016, revealing that 80% of the world cities have failed to reach the WHO’s advised safe levels of air quality. It showed that in Ireland and Britain 11 regions breached the safe Read more…
May 27th, 2016 Look around, is there plastic near you? Of course there is. Plastic is everywhere. The cheap practical material is used for a large number of goods, it revolutionised our lives but what about the “after”? The pieces left behind, on the streets and most importantly in our Read more…
