‘Radical economic reset’ needed to offset COVID-19 effects
March 19th, 2020
The Government must takes
rapid and concrete steps to stabilise the economy that puts protection of those
hit hardest by the impacts of COVID-19...
Short-term emissions drop nothing to celebrate
March 19th, 2020
For the past few days as the COVID-19 pandemic upends global routines, social media has been flooded with people sharing hopeful messages...
Trump resort refused permission for Doonbeg wall
March 18th, 2020
The Doonbeg golf resort owned by US President Donald Trump has been refused permission by An Bord Pleanála to build a controversial...
UCC environment society to cut ties with caterers over staff layoffs
March 16th, 2020
University College Cork (UCC) environmental society will cut all ties with the university’s catering provider over last week’s decision to lay off...
Covid-19 and the climate: key impacts so far
March 13th, 2020
Earlier this month, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said the recent decline in particulate matter (PM2.5) levels in China’s atmosphere was likely...
2019 was second warmest on record, WMO data
March 11th, 2020
2019 was the second warmest year
on record and finished up with an average global temperature of 1.1 C above
pre-industrial levels.
The year was...
Legal challenge to Project Ireland 2040 opens today
March 10th, 2020
A legal challenge to the Government’s adoption of Project Ireland 2040
on grounds of climate change concerns opens today in the High Court.
Last...
3,600 scientists call for CAP overhaul to protect nature
March 9th, 2020
Thousands of European scientists have declared that the European Commission’s proposals for the next round of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must...
EPA to hold oral hearing on Irish Cement emissions licence
March 6th, 2020
The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold an oral hearing to re-evaluate
its decision to grant an industrial emissions licence to Irish Cement to...
Irish anti-fracking activist meets UN to discuss global fracking ban
March 6th, 2020An Irish anti-fracking campaigner joined other activists, healthcare professionals and NGOs in New York this week to meet UN officials over their...
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