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Europe’s Climate in 2025 – from Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

An 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

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Interview with David Healy, Oxfam: on climate change, hunger and agriculture, biofuels and Irish climate bill

Currently with Oxfam, active with Green Party, Friends of the Irish Environment, Feasta, and former advisor to Irish Minister for the Environment

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1 Sep 2014

Fiona Neville, “Fracking as Trespass: The Bocardo Decision in the UK”

UK 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

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1 Aug 2014

Interview with Eamon Ryan, Leader of the Green Party in Ireland

On climate bill, agriculture and emissions, and ways forward on renewable energy and grids

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1 Jun 2014

Aoife O’Grady Interview with Annika Ahtonen, Policy Analyst for Climate, European Policy Centre

On the recent UN IPCC reports and EU climate and energy policy developments

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1 May 2014

Northern Ireland’s Climate Adaptation Programme: Going Nowhere

The Plan falls far short of marking any progress on climate change adaptation

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1 Apr 2014

Eva Barrett, Off Target. The EU’s Climate and Energy Policy Framework for 2030

Problems and disappointments with EU 2030 climate and energy proposals

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1 Feb 2014

An “Earth Gathering” in Dublin on Sustainable Development

On the UCD conference on sustainable development that reached out to the Irish Diaspora

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1 Dec 2013

Tony Lowes, “Sea Lice, Salmon Farms, and the Irish Government: A Lethal Mix”

On sea lice and salmon,the Irish Government’s actions, an EU investigation, and charges of maladministration

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1 Nov 2013

Marine Litter/Waste: What the EU, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland Are Doing, and Not Doing, About It

Cleaning up marine waste/litter under the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

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1 Oct 2013

Using and Abusing Natural Resources: What’s the Cost to Ireland?

Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) report on Towards a Green Net National Product for Ireland for the Irish EPA

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1 Aug 2013

Bill McKibben’s “Do the Math” Campaign Takes Aim at Fossil Fuels Industry

“I think we should be calling hurricanes after oil companies,” McKibben

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29 Jun 2013

Putting a Price on Nature: Internalizing the Costs of Exploiting Natural Resources

If businesses continue to exploit our common natural resources, such as water, air, biodiversity, then we need to make them pay us for that exploitation

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1 Jun 2013

Why the Precautionary Principle Is Critical: European Environment Agency’s Report on Late Lessons from early warnings

a cumulative, convincing demonstration of the critical need for the precautionary principle

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1 May 2013

Interview with John Sweeney on the Irish Climate Bill and National Economic & Social Council report on climate policy

Sweeney is Professor of Geography and Director of the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit, National University of Ireland Maynooth

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1 Apr 2013

Interview with Siobhán Egan, Senior Policy Officer, BirdWatch Ireland

Interview with Siobhán Egan, Senior Policy Officer, BirdWatch Ireland on bird conservation, biodiversity, windfarms, farm birds, habitat displacement and more

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1 Mar 2013

Interview with Michael Barry, Director, Irish Dairy Industries Association

Interview 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

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1 Feb 2013