Analysis and opinion on environmental issues. Updated first of each month.
Fossil fuel subsidies are financial incentives from the government that lower the prices of fossil fuels and their derivative products, such as plastics, or services, such as flight travel.
The 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
The world’s first Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders under the Aarhus Convention
1 Aug 2022So-called ‘green’ liquid natural gas (LNG) contains significant amounts of invisible methane being released into the atmosphere.
1 Jul 2022EACOP Must Be Stopped
1 Jun 2022The status of concentrations of pollutants in ambient air in 2020 and 2021 by pollutant, with both EU air quality standards and the WHO guidelines
1 May 2022On World Water Day 22 March 2022, an overview of the state of groundwater in the EU
1 Apr 2022Finance is uniquely positioned to save the planet, but has already financed 1.5֯ C of warming,
1 Mar 2022An Tasice’s role in protecting the heritage and environment of Ireland
1 Feb 2022Trying to preserve the EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities and warding off greenwashing
1 Jan 2022A viable path to meeting the 2030 target chosen by the UK public
1 Nov 2021If enough people want to change an approach, want to redefine ethical lobbying in a post-COVID-19, climate-challenged world, then change can happen.
1 Oct 2021Growing importance of national climate advisory councils across Europe
1 Sep 2021The European Commission’s ‘Fit for 55’ package is high on planet-saving rhetoric but low on ambition.
30 Jun 2021An 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.
1 Jun 2021Getting 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 2021