July 30th, 2019 The Taoiseach has been urged by environmental campaigners to set up a Just Transition Taskforce for coal and peat workers in the face of coming layoffs and redundancies. Friends of the Earth Ireland (FOE) and Fridays for Future school strikers sent a letter today to Taoiseach Leo Read more…
February 21st, 2019 The Government must follow the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and ensure environmental laws are enforced to save our increasingly fragile eco-system, the coordinator of Ireland’s largest environmental coalition has said. Speaking during the closing session of the National Biodiversity Conference this afternoon, Michael Ewing of the Environmental Read more…
September 25th, 2018 Hundreds gathered in Dublin today to mark the third anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Coalition 2030, an alliance of over 100 Irish civil society organisations and networks, today led a street march in Dublin city centre as part of the Global Read more…
July 17th, 2018 A new report from an alliance of over 100 Irish civil society groups has criticised the Irish Government’s commitment to bring policy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Coalition 2030 report was released this morning ahead of a presentation at a high-level UN forum Read more…
July 11th, 2018 Ireland is continuing to fall behind on its environmental commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new global analysis has found. The Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards Report compare different nations’ performance on the 17 goals at the centre of the UN’s sustainable development agenda. The SDGs, or global goals, seek Read more…
June 6th, 2018 The GAA has banned single-use plastics such as straws, coffee cups and cutlery from Croke Park, joining companies across Ireland taking steps to reduce their plastic waste. The stadium will start to serve tea and coffee in compostable cups this weekend as the GAA moves to remove Read more…
June 6th, 2018 Earlier this month, hundreds of students, teachers and young people gathered in Dublin’s Mansion House to celebrate ECO-UNESCO’s annual Young Environmentalist Awards. The awards ceremony, now in its 19th year, brought together 80 finalists out of a total of 318 projects registered from all across Ireland. Read more…
May 25th, 2018 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, are a new milestone in our history, the universal plan of action for people and our planet. In 2015 the United Nations, together with active citizens around the world, agreed upon 17 goals in order for Read more…
April 9th, 2018 Community members from across Dublin came together for the first ever Dublin Environmental Gathering on Saturday. The inaugural event in Dublin City Council’s Wood Quay venue attracted over 100 attendees and was organised by the Dublin Public Participation Networks (PPNs) in conjunction with the Irish Environmental Network Read more…
February 21st, 2018 Ireland is falling behind on its environmental commitments under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a new report has found. The Sustainable Progress Index for 2018 was launched at the Carmelite Centre in Dublin yesterday at a seminar organised by Social Justice Ireland to examine our progress in Read more…
