Analysis and opinion on environmental issues. Updated first of each month.
Do safe and sustainable options exist for handling plastics?
On the serious risk of a major ocean circulation change in the Atlantic
1 Nov 2024Who is speaking on behalf of the farmers, and what interests do they represent
1 Oct 2024Independent experts acknowledge Ireland has ‘turned a corner’ but conclude Programme for Government commitments were not strong enough in the first place. Faster action now needed.
1 Sep 2024Factors that have resulted in the devastating spread of blue green algae in the internationally important Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland
1 Aug 2024An overview of the EU’s largest climate problem
1 Jul 2024A joint statement signed by over 140 civil society organisations to protest the rollback of green measures in the EU
1 Jun 2024A useful entry into the extensive 4-volume Climate Change Assessment by the Irish EPA
1 May 2024The EEA has published the first ever European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) to help identify policy priorities for climate change adaptation and for climate-sensitive sectors.
1 Apr 2024EC Assessment of Ireland’s recent update of its National Energy and Climate Plan
1 Mar 2024First-ever EU law to protect individuals from SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation)
1 Feb 2024A snapshot of the new energy economy and how fast it is emerging.
1 Jan 2024Europe’s auto industry has a decades-long track record of doing too little, too late.
1 Dec 2023Pope Francis’ recent Apostolic Exhortation on climate change
1 Nov 2023Critical need for citizen participation in EU National Energy and Climate Plans
1 Oct 2023Has the adoption of a EU 2040 climate target fallen in the hands of procrastinators?
1 Sep 2023Do cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin amount to climate arson or a clean-energy boon? Well, it’s complicated.
1 Aug 2023All gas cooking appliances release pollutants that are harmful to human health and the environment.
1 Jul 2023The commitment to prevent the proliferation of coal, oil and gas by ending all new exploration and production
1 Jun 2023Air pollution threats to children’s health
1 May 2023Intersections of pollution and climate change
1 Apr 2023The legal arsenal to tackle environmental crime is lacking both at national and European level.
1 Mar 2023Charge that oil producers are not being serious about investing in genuinely clean fuels, but choosing the easy, unsustainable biofuels option
1 Feb 2023Emission reductions in agriculture should take explicit priority in the EU’s climate policy
1 Jan 2023How prosumers (producer-consumers) of renewable energy can help to accelerate the transition to a decarbonisation of society
1 Dec 2022