February 14th, 2018 A group of young Colombians has taken legal action against the government, demanding that it safeguards their rights to a better environment, water, food, health, and life. The twenty-five Colombians from the ages of seven to 26 argue that deforestation, which shot up almost 44 per cent Read more…
February 1st, 2018 Higher temperatures as a result of climate change are decimating the population of male green sea turtles, according to a new report in Current Biology. The report published last month revealed that up to 99 per cent of green sea turtles born in certain Australian nesting beaches Read more…
December 13th, 2017 A landmark legal challenge brought against the Irish Government for alleged inaction to tackle climate change has been pushed back until the end of January 2018 at the request of the State. The case brought by environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment was due to first Read more…
November 6th, 2017 The outcome of the Citizen’s Assembly must act as a “clarion call” for the government to step up action to tackle climate change, a coalition of civil society and environmental NGOs has said. After two weekends of deliberation, the Citizens’ Assembly voted in favour of 13 recommendations Read more…
October 24th, 2017 A leading Irish environmental organisation has launched a legal challenge against the Irish Government for its failure to take action to avert the threat of climate change. Friends of the Irish Environment (FiE) obtained permission from the High Court yesterday to proceed with its lawsuit against the Read more…
October 1st, 2017 A lack of political will, resources and policy experts is delaying Ireland’s move to a low-carbon society, the Citizens’ Assembly heard this morning. Addressing the Assembly during its session on energy efficiency, Paul Kenny of the Tipperary Energy Agency said that we need community heating and community energy 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…
October 1st, 2017 The government has failed to take concrete action on climate change for over a decade and may face billions of euros in fines, the Citizens’ Assembly has heard. The Assembly sat yesterday for the first time on the topic of how the Irish State can lead in Read more…
August 11th, 2017 The Citizens’ Assembly can help turn Ireland from climate laggard to leader by calling for a referendum to give a constitutional right to environmental protection, says the country’s leading environmental coalition. The Environmental Pillar – a coalition of 26 national environmental organisations – outlined its view in 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…