Summary of agency and organisation reports. Updated first of each month.
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Limit Your Meat, Dairy and Eggs: Nitrogen Emissions and Food Choices
PBL Netherlands and others on the health and environmental benefits of reducing consumption of animal products
1 Mar 2016EEA On 15 Years of EU Transport Policy: To What Effect?
EEA on how emissions from the transport sector, which keep on growing, represent a significant challenge for meeting EU targets for reducing GHGs
1 Feb 2016Cities: Where it’s happening – local climate action for global climate change
Cities 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 2016“I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree”: The EEA Report on the Water Retention Wonders of Forests
How forests retain excess rainwater reducing adverse impacts from flooding and droughts.
1 Dec 2015A Plea for Some Concrete Language from the Irish EPA: suggested edits to EPA’s Draft Strategy for Goals and Objectives, 2016-2020
The Irish EPA needs to be more concrete and transparent with what it intends to do over the next 5 years to protect the environment
1 Nov 2015EEB on Attempts to Block Regulation of Methane Under the Proposed Revised EU Directive on National Emission Ceilings
On attempts by vested interests, particularly in agriculture, to undermine protections against methane in proposed EU Directive
1 Oct 2015The Pope, the Planet and Passion: LAUDATO SI’ and Getting the Tone Right
A good old-fashioned thunderous sermon from the mount on the risks from climate change and the blocks to climate action
1 Sep 2015EEA Signals on Agriculture and Soil, and Climate Change
On how climate change is currently influencing Europe and how it is expected to impact in the future on agriculture and soils
1 Aug 2015Wind and Biomass for Electricity and Heat: Their Wider Benefits for Ireland
On how wind and biomass help Ireland meet its EU GHG emission targets and contribute to the wider Irish economy with jobs and macroeconomic benefits
1 Jul 2015Walmarting of Agriculture: It’s All About Consolidation and Concentration
Big agriculture pushing aside family and community farms like Walmart in the retail sector
1 Jun 2015Developments in Irish Waste Enforcement
On status of enforcement in Ireland in waste sector
1 May 2015EEA’s The European Environment (SOER 2015): Where Do We Stand Now
Report on the state of the environment in Europe now and its global context
1 Apr 2015Business in the US Is Becoming Climate Riskier, But At What Cost?
Report calling for American business leaders and investors to “get in the game” and rise to the challenge of addressing climate change, but without letting us know the price of the ticket to the game
1 Mar 2015The Trojan Horse: Investor-State Dispute Settlements in the EU-US Proposed Trade Agreement (TTIP)
On a recent study by Friends of the Earth Europe analysing 127 cases of investor-state dispute claims, and their dangers for environmental protections, and democracy
1 Feb 2015European Environmentalism at a Crossroad, or Is it Really a Roadblock
On the past 40 years and future of European environmentalism and the implications of the unfolding policies of the new EU Commission
1 Jan 2015A World of Cities by 2050: More People, More Money, More Water Problems and Some Possibilities
On implications for natural resources of over 50% of all people on the planet now living in cities, with 70% by 2050
30 Nov 2014Time to Change: the Deadly Game of Fossil Fuel Subsidies
On the counterproductive, damaging effects of fossil fuels subsidies and what to do about them – Updated 14 Nov 2014
1 Nov 2014Who, If Anyone, Do You Trust on Wind Power?
On Ireland’s National Economic and Social Council report on engaging communities with wind power
1 Oct 2014Where Is Ireland’s Energy Policy Headed?
On government Green Paper on Energy Policy for Ireland and responses from several environmental organisations
1 Sep 2014What’s Got the Attention of the European Environmental Bureau for 2015: Critical Environmental Issues for the European Union
Europe’s largest coalition of grassroots environmental organisations obliges us with an assessment of its priorities for the European Union for next year
1 Aug 2014The European Environment Agency (EEA) on Well Being and Environment
We use natural resources faster than the planet can replenish them, turn resources into products that harm the planet and us, and waste or discard the products after a brief period. And then we start all over by extracting more natural resources to replace these products. It is all a vicious circle.
1 Jul 2014Catastrophe Modelling by Insurance Companies: Building Climate Change Impacts into Doing Business
Insurance companies are far ahead of many industries and many governments when it comes to accepting climate change and, more importantly, building that acceptance into the way they do business.
1 Jun 2014EU Policy on Airline Pollution: Evolving or Regressing?
On need for market-based measure to address GHGs from EU aviation sector
1 May 2014Northern Ireland’s Climate Adaptation Programme: Going Nowhere
The Plan falls far short of marking any progress on climate change adaptation
1 Apr 2014