The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published Ireland’s first Climate Change Assessment Report. The Assessment provides a picture of where Ireland is in its response the climate emergency…
Ireland ranks 8th out of 14 comparable EU countries in this year’s Sustainable Progress Index. The index comprises three dimensions: economy, society and environment. Ireland is ranked 9th out of…
The Sustainable Progress Index is a landmark annual report with the potential to enhance the policy decisions of the Irish Government when it comes to progressing the UN’s Sustainable…
How can we measure the value of the services that nature provides us, many of which we take for granted? Water, air, soil, trees, peatland, woodlands are among the services that nature provides us…
‘Environmental Indicators Ireland 2023’ published by the CSO gives a snapshot of how Ireland is -performing over 10 themes including Greenhouse Gases, Air, Water, Land Use, Energy and Biodiversity. …
In 2022 an estimated 40 million people, 9.3% of Europeans, were unable to keep their homes adequately warm, compared to 6.9% in 2021. The European Commission recently published a series of…
Our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme of 'A Just Transition'. The fundamental principle of a Just Transition is to leave no people, communities, economic sectors or regions behind…
Investment in renewable energy and retrofitting on the scale required to meet our national climate ambition and maintain energy security requires large scale investment in infrastructure. The issues…
The fundamental principle of a Just Transition is to leave no people, communities, economic sectors or regions behind as we transition to a low carbon future. Such a transition means changing how we…
How we adapt and mitigate to climate change now will in large part determine the type of world in which future generations will live. When adapting to meet this challenge, we must also grasp the…