Ireland to raise climate ambition, says Bruton
Ireland will raise the
ambition of its climate action efforts in line with a global coalition, the
Minister for Climate Action said during his speech at...
Irish water quality deteriorating across the board, EPA warns
December 10th, 2019
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned that the overall quality of Ireland’s lakes, rivers and estuaries is deteriorating, reversing all gains...
Supreme Court hears large-scale peat extraction case
December
10th, 2019
The Supreme Court today heard proceedings over a near-decade old dispute to determine the owners of land that form part of a large...
Ireland remains near bottom of class in climate action
December 9th,
2019
Ireland has been singled out as one of the worst-performing countries in Europe in tackling the climate crisis for the third year in...
Environmental activists call for end to overfishing
December 9th,
2019
Protesters gathered in Dublin today to demand that the Government ends overfishing in Irish waters ahead of key fisheries quota negotiations in Brussels...
Time to listen to science and end overfishing in our seas
December 9th, 2019
The industrialisation of European fisheries after World War II drove overfishing across the North Atlantic.
Overfishing has, in turn, driven the decline...
COP25: Time to make a dent in rising emissions curve
December 8th, 2019
The annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change rotates around the continents to minimise...
COP25: Shake-up needed for a clean, equitable and just future
December 6th,
2019
After the chaos of the change of venue from Chile to Madrid, COP25 kicked off this week relatively smoothly.
Following on from last...
Access to environmental information poor across EU
December 6th, 2019
Citizens across Europe continue to face difficulties in gaining access to information on environmental matters despite clear national, EU and international rights,...
A year of climate strikes, a year of hope
November 6th,
2019
Today, I will pick up my tattered climate strike sign for the 52nd week running and take to the streets to call for...
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