Extinction Rebellion launches alternative budget
October 8th, 2019
Extinction Rebellion Ireland has launched its own climate-specific budget as the Government delivers its budgetfor the upcoming fiscal year.
The Budget for Climate...
Budget 2020: Where does climate and biodiversity fit?
October 8th, 2019
The international climate movement has seen a meteoric rise since the release of last year’s Budget.
Political discussions of environmental policy have now...
Why we need to plan for the reintroduction of wolves
October 8th, 2019
Rising sea levels, intensifying storms, mass extinction, chronic
pollution and environmental degradation – the dystopian future is no longer in
the future. We’re living...
Department confirms support for gas terminal
October 7th, 2019
The Government has confirmed that it has put the Shannon LNG gas terminal forward for inclusion on a special EU energy list...
150 academics outline support for Extinction Rebellion
October 7th, 2019
Over 150 Irish academics have signed an open letter outlining their support for Extinction Rebellion as activists gear up to disrupt the...
Commission tells MEPs to voice fracking concerns with Irish government
October 4th, 2019
Irish MEPs have been told by the European Commission to air any concerns over the proposed Shannon LNG terminal directly with the...
Time to rebel – a call for civil disobedience
October 4th, 2019
For the past decades we have tried climate activism. It hasn’t
worked.
We’ve protested in our hundreds of millions – it hasn’t worked.
We’ve raised...
Community projects priced out of renewables revolution
October 4th,
2019
There is currently no affordable way for community-led renewable energy projects to gain access to the national electricity grid, theClimate Action Committee has...
Time to review badger cull in TB eradication plan
October 4th, 2019
Earlier this week, the Irish
Farmers’ Association appeared
before the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture to discuss bovine tuberculosis
(TB) and the state’s programme that seeks...
Minister avoids call for Dail vote over fracking concerns
October 3rd, 2019
While recognising concerns over fracked gas links to a planned gas terminal in Co Kerry, the Minister for Climate Action has rejected...
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