Analysis and opinion on environmental issues. Updated first of each month.
Independent 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.
Factors 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 2022How agriculture can be transformed to help stabilize our climate.
1 Nov 2022A brief overview of the evidence on the environmental and occupational determinants of cancer in Europe and of EU policy responses.
1 Oct 2022The Irish government’s flaws in dealing with Sectoral Emissions Ceilings under the first Carbon Budget Programme