Cabinet signs off on new oil and gas exploration ban
2 February 2021
The Cabinet has signed off on introducing legislation to ban new applications for gas and oil exploration licences.
Minister for the Environment Eamon...
What’s the deal with water abstraction?
2 February 2021
Over the past couple of months, you might have heard quite a bit about water abstraction.
So what exactly is it, why is...
Padraic Fogarty on Shaping New Mountains
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The first episode of Shaping New Mountains dropped today, and safe to say, we are excited.
Irish Wildlife Trust Campaign Officer and ecologist...
The 2020 emissions projections: a deep dive
29 January 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) released their early estimates for 2020 greenhouse gas emissions...
Explainer: Bord na Móna ending its peat extraction
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If you’ve got a hawk-eye watch on climate news, you probably heard about Bord na Móna’s game-changing announcement earlier this month. But...
Complaint lodged against ESB over Colombian coal imports
19 January 2021
A formal complaint against the ESB has been lodged today in regards to imported coal from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia.
Filed by...
EU must redouble climate finance efforts, new report finds
18 January 2021
Modest increases in EU climate finance in recent years are insufficient and the bloc must redouble its efforts, according to a new...
Rose Wall on environmental justice
We wanted to find out more about environmental justice in Ireland, so we called up Rose Wall, the Chief Executive Officer of Community Law...
Bord na Móna confirms it has ended peat extraction
15 January 2021
Bord na Móna has ended all peat extraction on its own land.
The semi-state company called the announcement a “key milestone in...
Plans to import fracked gas through Port of Cork scrapped
14 January 2021
Plans to import fracked gas through the Port of Cork have been scrapped, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications confirmed...
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