Origin Green’s environmental commitments appear to be “marketing tool”, says TD
January 26th, 2018
Origin Green’s commitment to protecting the environment appears to be only a “marketing tool”, the Joint Committee on Agriculture heard this week.
The...
The Climate Action Bill recently became law. Now what?
4 August 2021
Climate campaigners have worked for years in Ireland
to see this kind of legislation enacted. Once proposed by the Government, the Bill
went...
Over a quarter of Irish birds on conservation Red List
15 April 2021
Over a quarter of all Irish birds now find themselves on the highest level of conservation concern.
According to a paper in the...
Project launched to name and shame plastic packaging polluters
January 26th, 2019
A new Cork-based anti-plastic initiative has urged Mondelēz International, the producer of Cadbury chocolates, to stop packaging its products with single-use plastics.
The Plastic...
Three years and six goals to curb climate change
July 10th, 2017
A group of climate change experts have published six goals to achieve by 2020 in order to meet the targets set out...
75% of highly polluting diesel cars yet to be recalled across EU
May 30th, 2019
Three out of four highly polluting diesel cars have yet to be recalled for fixes, a new analysis of the most recent...
September date set for provisional application of controversial CETA trade deal
The controversial Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will be provisionally applied from 21 September after Canada and the European Union reached an agreement...
Minister for Agriculture welcomes approach to controversial new CAP
21 October 2020
The Minister for Agriculture has welcomed the approach to new Common Agricultural Policy deal, a proposal which environmental organisations have continued to...
Drone package deliveries may reduce emissions and save energy
February 20th, 2018
The use of small drones for package delivery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save energy if deployed carefully, according to a...
COVID19 – a manifestation of the biodiversity crisis
March 20th, 2020
Ecologists are blue in the face telling people that all life
depends upon biodiversity and that we depend upon the natural world for...
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