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New research by an international team of climate scientists documents a surge of global warming during the past 15 years that risks shutting down a key ocean current by 2050.
Public chargers are used for only 5% of charging events, while charging cars at home and/or at work supply the rest
1 Oct 2018“Sustainable development” has been translated into “Just Transition” to reflect the recognition that the labor market and community is undergoing a structural transition as a result of climate change
27 Oct 2018An EEA report on the adverse impacts on water resources from agricultural practices
1 May 2021On the UCD conference on sustainable development that reached out to the Irish Diaspora
1 Dec 2013An independent evaluation on how the Irish Climate Change Advisory Council can build on its strengths
1 Feb 2021An Tasice’s role in protecting the heritage and environment of Ireland
1 Feb 2022A viable path to meeting the 2030 target chosen by the UK public
1 Nov 2021The inside story of how the agriculture sector lobbied to weaken EU air quality standards with serious consequence for the health of Europeans
1 Aug 2016On the recent UN IPCC reports and EU climate and energy policy developments
1 May 2014On saving the critical EU Birds and Habitats Directives
1 Nov 2020The Irish government’s flaws in dealing with Sectoral Emissions Ceilings under the first Carbon Budget Programme
The last primeval forest in Europe is reconstructed virtually, it goes viral, then is virtually destroyed, leaving one virtual tree standing. A viral lesson
1 Dec 2020“I think we should be calling hurricanes after oil companies,” McKibben
29 Jun 2013New research by an international team of climate scientists documents a surge of global warming during the past 15 years that risks shutting down a key ocean current by 2050.
1 Mar 2025Overcoming barriers to environmental justice in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, with some urgent priorities for the NI Department of Justice
1 Mar 2021Cities occupy 3% of Earth’s land, and house 50% of the world’s population, and account for about 60-80% of energy consumption and 75% of carbon emissions – what happens in cities matters for climate change.
1 Jan 2016She attributes her hyperfocus and “outside-the-box thinking” to being on the autism spectrum, viewing her condition as an advantage for addressing the current climate crisis
1 Nov 2019How people are trying to structure litigation to hold those responsible for the GHGs that are driving climate emergencies
1 Aug 2019Converging crises of health, Covid-19 and climate breakdown
1 Jan 2021“Range anxiety” from driving electric cars is very rapidly going to become an anachronism.
1 Oct 2016Do safe and sustainable options exist for handling plastics?
1 Dec 2024European Environment Bureau on insufficient money for climate action
1 Jun 2024Ignoring climate change undermines the planet and poverty reforms
1 Feb 2018Leading commentator, formerly of Grist and now with Vox, on the causes and effects of climate change in blunt, plain terms
1 Apr 2018On VOICE’s work on waste issues, including food waste and zero waste, and on water issues
1 Jun 2018Preserving planetary boundaries
1 May 2023Earthjustice lawsuit against one of the largest meat companies in the world for trying to deceive consumers about its climate impact.
1 Jan 2025Report on the state of the environment in Europe now and its global context
1 Apr 2015If 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 2021On the past 40 years and future of European environmentalism and the implications of the unfolding policies of the new EU Commission
1 Jan 2015The EU has failed to comply with Article 9 of the Convention that provides access to justice to contest any act or omission that contravenes environmental laws
1 Jul 2017An accessible explanation of the variations in temperature and precipitation as well as the extreme climate events that European inhabitants will have to face by 2050
1 May 2024Problems and disappointments with EU 2030 climate and energy proposals
1 Feb 2014How ExxonMobil misled the public on what it knew about the reality and risks of climate change to protect its stock value, and its profits for shareholders and management.
1 Oct 2017Who is speaking on behalf of the farmers, and what interests do they represent
1 Oct 2024UK Supreme Court holds underground encroachment by gas extraction companies is an actionable trespass and the landowner is entitled to compensation for the intrusion onto his land
1 Aug 2014On 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 2021We are only beginning to learn where the climate damages will be, when they will occur and how catastrophic they will be
1 Jan 2018On the Dutch government’s new law to reduce harmful nitrate pollution in livestock farming – from Sentient Media
1 Jun 2023Is green hydrogen the answer to the climate crisis?
1 Apr 2023On the folly of Trump’s infrastructure plans to spend billions of dollars on developing projects that will likely be ruined by the impacts of a rapidly changing climate
6 Mar 2018Doomsday may seem like it’s right around the corner – is it?
1 Jan 2023How fast is the world moving towards a green future
1 Dec 2023Australia doesn’t make sense: scorched by fires and drowned by floods; full of sun, wind, water, land, minerals and money to clean up its economy. Yet Australians are among the worst polluters in the world.
1 Jul 2023Assessing purported benefits of green hydrogen gas for home heating
1 Oct 2023What would happen to coastal cities around the world if Antarctica were to melt
1 Jan 2024The Institute of International and European Affairs latest analysis of the environmental implications of the UK leaving the EU
1 Aug 2017On anti-fracking and good energies campaigns on the Island of Ireland
1 Nov 2016On the disturbing signals on environmental policy from the new European Commission, and the work of Birdlife Europe and its partners, including with cement industry and renewable grid operators
1 Feb 2015On the workings of and problems with recent proposed EU trade agreements with Canada (CETA) and the US (TTIP)
1 Jan 2017On the drastic government budget cuts affecting environmental sector in Northern Ireland and the sectors’ resilience
1 Jun 2015Currently with Oxfam, active with Green Party, Friends of the Irish Environment, Feasta, and former advisor to Irish Minister for the Environment
1 Sep 2014On the work of World Vision and growing interplay between developmental aid and climate change
1 May 2015On threats of fracking to Northern Ireland community life
1 Jul 2016On agriculture and climate change in Ireland
1 Feb 2017Filmed in Dublin September 2015
1 Mar 2016Filmed in Belfast 14 April 2015
1 Jul 2015On McDonald’s tenure at the IT and the environmental movement in Ireland, 1979-2015
1 Nov 2015On the work of the Friends of Earth Europe, including Keepers, 2030 EU targets, the deregulation agenda of the new Commission, TTIP and ISDS
1 Mar 2015On the history and evolution of the Education Unit and Green Schools Program at An Taisce
1 Feb 2016On litigating environmental matters in Irish and EU courts, including Shell Corrrib and Galway Bypass cases.
30 Nov 2014Interview with Anne-Marie McDevitt, Project Manager of Nature Matters Northern Ireland, on implications of BREXIT for NI environment
1 Jan 2019On efforts to protect and plant trees in Ireland, Sustainable Forest Management, and Green Jobs from woodlands
2 Nov 2017On the impact of Brexit on protection of the marine environment in Northern Ireland
1 Feb 2019On climate bill, agriculture and emissions, and ways forward on renewable energy and grids
1 Jun 2014The Celtic Interconnector between Ireland and France
1 Feb 2023On the environmental work of Bryson Charitable Group in energy and recycling
1 Mar 2019Sweeney is Professor of Geography and Director of the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit, National University of Ireland Maynooth
1 Apr 2013Interview with Michael Barry, Director of the Irish Dairy Industries Association, on Ireland’s grass-fed family-owned dairy farming, Harvest 2020 and its impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, and ways forward to address the climate change impacts
1 Feb 2013On Public Participation Networks, Fracking, Fossil Fuel Divestment, Sustainable Development Goals, High Court decision on constitutional right to protection of the environment, Environmental Law Implementation Group
1 May 2019Interview with Siobhán Egan, Senior Policy Officer, BirdWatch Ireland on bird conservation, biodiversity, windfarms, farm birds, habitat displacement and more
1 Mar 2013Describing the worst country in Europe, and 48th out of 60 countries, on climate change performance as a laggard is a bit of an understatement
1 Apr 2019An intimate look at Irish bogs
1 Jun 2021The Irish government current positions on climate action seem like Green Washing rather than any substantive change of heart or mind.
1 Jan 2020A recent report from SEAI shows that Ireland is facing substantial fines for missing its energy targets
1 May 2016Environmentalists will have to remain vigilant and ensure that the new Irish coalition sharpens its commitments on climate policies impacting agriculture
1 Jul 2020Balancing bogs as museums, that present an unrivaled historical and ecological record, and as living landscapes.
1 Sep 2020That’s a key reason almost everything you know about climate change solutions is probably outdated.
1 Jun 2016How reports about the global warming impact of methane compared to carbon dioxide are outdated and wrong.
1 Oct 2015How do we protect the earth after the virus crisis has passed. What lessons have we learned.
1 May 2020Can Lapland’s primeval forests be saved? – DW Documentary
1 Mar 2023On the author’s Wild Ireland Tour by bike to highlight island’s biodiversity
1 Oct 2014Cleaning up marine waste/litter under the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive
1 Oct 2013Finance is uniquely positioned to save the planet, but has already financed 1.5֯ C of warming,
1 Mar 2022While 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 2020The recent Green Wave in Irish politics and how it will affect the formation and operation of the new Irish government
1 Mar 2020The Plan falls far short of marking any progress on climate change adaptation
1 Apr 2014How agriculture can be transformed to help stabilize our climate.
1 Nov 2022A good old-fashioned thunderous sermon from the mount on the risks from climate change and the blocks to climate action
1 Sep 2015Comments on status of environmental movement on island of Ireland
1 Sep 2019If businesses continue to exploit our common natural resources, such as water, air, biodiversity, then we need to make them pay us for that exploitation
1 Jun 2013A revision to Reports section of “irish environment” magazine
1 Aug 2021The latest policies, legislation, and case law on climate, energy and emissions, trade agreements, and EIA.
2 May 2017Report from Friends of the Earth Ireland on why and how subsidies for gas are causing more GHGs and environmental harms.
1 Jun 2020The Oireachtas takes on a stronger role in holding the Government and public bodies to account for climate actions
1 Jun 2019The broken records inside the 2014 “State of the Climate” report from the AMA and NOAA
29 Jul 2015The Union of Concerned Scientists’ assessment of the current status, and usefulness, of nuclear power in US
1 Dec 2018Bill McKibben on the first time he realized Trump’s effects on the environment, the Green New Deal, learning about climate refugees, and more.
1 Jul 2019Their unfolding attacks on Pádraic Fogarty and the Irish EPA
1 Aug 2023Status of dangers and efforts to protect the arctic environment – from DW Planet A
1 Dec 2022Her son is US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who seems dedicated to following his mother in undermining the US EPA.
1 Feb 2024An Update
1 Nov 2023On the counterproductive, damaging effects of fossil fuels subsidies and what to do about them – Updated 14 Nov 2014
1 Nov 2014On sea lice and salmon,the Irish Government’s actions, an EU investigation, and charges of maladministration
1 Nov 2013Trump’s attempt to build a seawall at Doonbeg rejected by Irish planning authority
1 Apr 2020Artists and their connections with glaciers, forests and the deep sea in Switzerland, Siberia and Brighton (30 minutes)
1 Jul 2024Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) report on Towards a Green Net National Product for Ireland for the Irish EPA
1 Aug 2013Gore’s searing indictment of fossil fuel companies for walking back their climate commitments
1 Sep 2023How tipping points are getting closer and closer, and then what happens
1 Oct 2022The way we talk about the problem has shifted dramatically over time.
1 Sep 2024How could acquiring Greenland satisfy a greedy narcissist like Trump
1 Feb 2025Should the EU allow some natural-gas and nuclear energy projects to be labeled as green investments in its sustainable investment Toxonomy
1 Jan 2022a cumulative, convincing demonstration of the critical need for the precautionary principle
1 May 2013A Report by James Hansen et al.
1 Jan 2014Bridges over, or under, road systems to reduce roadkill and preserve access to habitats
1 May 2022