Ireland ranks low for action on Sustainable Development Goals
February 22nd, 2019
Ireland is falling behind on its environmental commitments under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new report has found.
The Sustainable Progress...
Protecting Ireland’s biodiversity needs funding, not ‘lip service’
February 21st, 2019
The Green Party has called on the government to stop paying lip service to biodiversity protection and invest €50m in the chronically...
Sustainable model key to save our fragile eco-system
February 21st, 2019
The Government must follow the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and ensure environmental laws are enforced to save our increasingly fragile eco-system, the...
Results-based farm funding to protect biodiversity is key
February 21st, 2019
Our outdated prescriptive and rule-based one size fits all agri-environmental payment system needs to be replaced by schemes focused on delivering results,...
If we get biodiversity right, ‘everything else will follow’
February 21st, 2019
If we get biodiversity protection right, we will also address issues in food production, healthcare, the economy and climate change, one of...
President Higgins: Timeframe to halt extinction crisis ‘perilously short’
February 21st, 2019
The voices of conservationists, environmental NGOs and biodiversity specialists must be prioritised in the face of the extinction crisis currently facing the...
Greater steps required to green Irish agriculture, EU expert says
February 20th, 2019
Steps taken to green Irish agriculture are not currently being implemented to a sufficient enough level to meet our biodiversity goals, an...
Significant gap in biodiversity funding in Ireland
February 20th, 2019
There is a significant funding gap in Ireland for tackling biodiversity decline despite the growing extinction crisis we are currently facing, the...
Tackling biodiversity loss too urgent to be left to future generations
February 20th, 2019
Biodiversity decline is too pressing an issue to be left to future generations to halt as habitats show increasing signs of deterioration,...
Minister must ‘act now’ to address Ireland’s extinction crisis
February 2oth, 2019
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has called on the Minister for Heritage to act now and prioritise tackling Ireland’s worsening extinction crisis...
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