Analysis and opinion on environmental issues. Updated first of each month.
An electric vehicle (EV) battery uses up just 30kg of raw materials with recycling compared to the 17,000 litres of petrol burned by the average car.
Getting up to speed on the new pending Irish Climate Bill
1 May 2021On getting the four largest greenhouse gas emitters (China, the European Union, India and the US) to find ways to collaborate on climate action
1 Apr 2021Overcoming barriers to environmental justice in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, with some urgent priorities for the NI Department of Justice
1 Mar 2021The continuing struggle for environmental justice and against racism
1 Feb 2021On proposed change to Aarhus regulation that NGOs can only challenge decisions that apply to individuals
1 Jan 2021Study by EEB and Climate Action Network
1 Dec 2020The interplay between recent mitigation policies across all sectors and COVID-19 response measures
1 Nov 2020The idea that cities should be designed for cars is long dead.
1 Oct 2020Balancing bogs as museums, that present an unrivaled historical and ecological record, and as living landscapes.
1 Sep 2020Environmentalists will have to remain vigilant and ensure that the new Irish coalition sharpens its commitments on climate policies impacting agriculture
1 Jul 2020Ride-hailing services like Uber are increasing car travel, climate emissions and traffic congestion, according to a new US study.
2 Jun 2020How do we protect the earth after the virus crisis has passed. What lessons have we learned.
1 May 2020An obscure European Commission fund, ‘Research Fund for Coal and Steel’ (RFCS), is incompatible with the EU’s Green Deal and climate ambitions
1 Apr 2020The recent Green Wave in Irish politics and how it will affect the formation and operation of the new Irish government
1 Mar 2020While the big GHG emitters, including the United States and China, shunned their responsibility at the Madrid talks, cities, states, regions, businesses, and especially the youth showed courage.
1 Feb 2020Current status of Northern Ireland’s climate inaction
1 Jan 2020A new EU law obliging manufacturers to make home appliances easier to repair has caught global attention
1 Dec 2019LNG requires massive investment in bunkering infrastructure and LNG-compatible ships, which cannot deliver carbon-free transport but run the risk of creating stranded assets some of which will be publicly funded.
1 Nov 2019We think the economics of renewables are impossible for oil to compete with.
1 Oct 2019Global progress in the past decade in renewables for electricity production, plus good news from China and EU and bad news from US and Brazil
1 Sep 2019The Commission’s long-term strategic vision to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, showing how Europe can lead the way to climate neutrality – an economy with net-zero GHG emissions
1 Aug 2019By 2030, wind and solar will undercut existing coal and gas almost everywhere.
1 Jul 2019In Europe, only 40 percent of EU rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands are healthy today, largely due to pressures from industrial agriculture and hydropower, as well as other sectors, such as mining.
1 Jun 2019