Press Release: Ireland named & shamed at international awards ceremony for subsidising peat burning
Immediate Release
Ireland was among nine countries named and shamed at the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Awards ceremony in Brussels today for the Government’s commitment to...
Environmental Pillar Letter to PEFC International Calling for the Suspension of Draft PEFC ...
To the Directors of PEFC International. I am writing to you on behalf of the Environmental Pillar, an organisation that works to represent the...
Press Release: Environmental organisations welcome recommendation of Oireachtas Committee to ban fracking
Environmental organisations welcome the recommendation of the Oireachtas’ environmental Committee to ban fracking in the Republic of Ireland.
The Environmental Pillar welcomes the decision to...
Press Release: Over 80 Irish civil society groups, including unions, farmers and business owners,...
A coalition of Irish farmers, environmentalists, trade unionists, global justice groups and small business organisations have called on MEPs to oppose the EU Canada...
Press Release: Right to Know, Right to Act: Your rights as an European Citizen...
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The Environmental Pillar will hold a seminar with MEP Liadh Ni Riada this Friday, 28 April 2017 to highlight Irish people’s rights to...
New report shows Irish agriculture is neither ‘climate-smart’ nor sustainable
Irish cattle less climate-efficient than European average and emissions per head up from 1990The Environmental Pillar and Stop Climate Chaos and have published a new...
Press Conference on State’s failure to consult Irish people on UK nuclear expansion
Concerns about the UK’s nuclear expansion program and Ireland’s failures to consult with the Irish public were raised today by TDs and Senators from across...
Ireland’s Draft Forest Strategy (2022 – 2030)
This is a submission on behalf of the Environmental Pillar in response to the public consultation on Ireland’s Forest Strategy (2022 – 2030) and...
Brexit: NGO coalition calls on Barnier to stress need for cross-border environmental solution
Immediate Release n environmental coalition has called on Michel Barnier to stress the need for a solution to the border issue that maintains full alignment...
Press Release: Climate change IS the challenge of our generation but Budget 2017 falls...
Budget 2017 may have brought measures to move Ireland’s transport and energy sectors towards a low carbon future but action across all areas of...