17 August 2020 An open call was officially launched today for locally-led rewetting schemes of farmed peatland as part of the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Programme. The scheme is focused on drained peatlands in the midlands region and seeks applications that will “target climate action on peatlands under agricultural Read more…
27 July 2020 The Minister for Climate Action has signed regulations extending the smoky coal ban and its burning, sale and advertisement will be prohibited from 1 September 2020. The ban will be extended to all towns with populations over 10,000 people, causing the use of smoky coal to be Read more…
23 July 2020 Former Green Party candidate Saoirse McHugh has left the Green Party today, a move she doubts is “a surprise to most people”. In a Twitter thread posted on Thursday morning, Ms McHugh made the announcement and said her reasons for doing so “are obvious”. She referred to Read more…
22 July 2020 Activists the world over have been calling repeatedly for a course of climate action that simultaneously addresses existing socio-economic inequalities. The approach is often referred to climate justice, and the term has gained traction in recent years, particularly on Irish soil. Former President Mary Robinson penned a Read more…
17 July 2020 The failure to achieve sustainable transport targets by the State over the past decade represents, “a major public policy failure”, An Tasice told the OECD this week. In its submission to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Ireland’s environmental performance review, An Taisce highlighted Read more…
If fully implemented, the 2019 Climate Action Plan would meet existing climate targets but systemic change is still needed for Ireland to become a low carbon society, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said. The agency published its greenhouse gas emissions projection for the 2019 and 2040 period today and Read more…
1 July 2020 Handing the responsibility of the biodiversity crisis to the Department of Housing is a decision that “beggars belief”, according to a statement released today by a coalition of leading environmental NGOs. The Environmental Pillar, Birdwatch Ireland, Irish Wildlife Trust, Friends of the Earth, An Taisce and SWAN Read more…
