Summary of agency and organisation reports. Updated first of each month.
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Climate Change Adaptation in Ireland: A Blueprint Without a Builder
A blueprint for climate change adaptation but with nobody to build the structure
1 Mar 2014Think Local, Act Global: Dutch Ideas for a Robust Environmental Policy for the 21st Century
Climate change and other threats are leaving us all vulnerable in ways we never were in the past, and the past ways of dealing with environmental threats do not seem to be working – new Dutch report
1 Feb 2014Why We Have to Keep Global Temperature Rise to 1°C and Emissions Capped at 500GtC
A Report by James Hansen et al.
1 Jan 2014An “Earth Gathering” in Dublin on Sustainable Development
On the UCD conference on sustainable development that reached out to the Irish Diaspora
1 Dec 2013The Triple Threat to the Ocean: Climate Warming, Acidification, and Deoxygenation
What’s not so visible but critically dangerous for the health of the ocean
1 Nov 2013Marine 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
1 Oct 2013Green Public Procurement: Reports from European Environment Bureau, ClientEarth, and Friends of the Earth Dublin
Current status of GPP and ways to move forward
1 Sep 2013Using 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
1 Aug 2013EU Policy Options for Climate/Energy Post 2020: A Dutch Perspective
Post-2020 EU policy options in the context of the EU goal for a low-carbon economy with an 80% reduction in GHG emissions by 2050
29 Jun 2013Putting 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
1 Jun 2013Why 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
1 May 2013Agriculture Dictates Ireland’s Climate Policy: The Government’s Climate Bill and the National Economic & Social Council Report
The Irish government recently published its long-awaited climate bill and at the same time launched a report by the National Economic & Social Council …
1 Apr 2013The Rough Road Ahead for Biofuels: Report by Greenpeace, BirdLife Europe, T&E, and EEB
Report on how Europe can effectively meet its current renewable energy target in transport without the need for harmful biofuels.
1 Mar 2013Ireland’s Climate Adaptation Strategy: The Emperor Has No Clothes On
At the end of 2012, the Irish government published its National Climate Change Adaptation Framework…The report says almost nothing concrete about adapting.
1 Feb 2013Sustaining Water Use in Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland (NI) Freshwater Taskforce issued a report, “From Source to Sea” that sets out a 10-point action plan for sustaining water use in NI
1 Jan 2013Carbonification, or How We Are Condemning Ourselves to Hell Because of Our Lust for Carbon
There seems to be a perverse relationship between the number of negotiations for a global deal on climate change and the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. The more people meet to talk about climate change, the more hot air is blown into the atmosphere.
30 Nov 2012The European Commission’s Three Studies on Fracking: On Risks, Climate Impacts, and Market Possibilities
The European Commission (EC) commissioned three studies of the impact of unconventional gas, primarily shale gas, extraction on environmental and health risks, on climate change, and on EU energy.
4 Nov 2012How Can 70% of the Population, That Live in Cities, Survive Climate Change: The European Environment Agency Report on Urban Adaptation
Every four years the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issues a report on the status of the environment in the Republic of Ireland (RoI). In June it issued Ireland’s Environment 2012: An Assessment (IE2012).
1 Oct 2012Ireland’s Environment in 2012
Every four years the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issues a report on the status of the environment in the Republic of Ireland (RoI). In June it issued Ireland’s Environment 2012: An Assessment (IE2012).
1 Sep 2012Should We Starve or Burn: The Heated Competition Between Food Production and GHG Emissions
On Friday July 13th I headed from Donegal to Dublin to attend a session of the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) on “The Great Debate on the battle to feed a changing planet.”
31 Jul 2012International Energy Agency’s Golden Age of Gas and Golden Rules on Fracking
In an unfortunate choice of title, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has weighed in on the fight over fracking with its report …
30 Jun 2012The Irish EPA Preliminary Assessment of Fracking: A Good Start but a Long Way to Go
The Irish EPA issued a report on Fracking: Current Knowledge and Potential Environmental Impacts, in early May 2012 …
30 May 2012New York Plans to Frack, The Public Reacts: Implications for Fracking on the Island of Ireland
In earlier issues of this magazine we published an Article by Jim Morris on “The Pennsylvania Experience With Methane Extraction, or Fracking,” and a Report on “Fracking in New York: accidents, spills, releases, ETC,”
1 May 2012Some Lingering Air Problems in Northern Ireland
Water containing human waste, industrial waste, and runoff from roads, and how it is treated, is hardly an inviting subject for polite conversation, and …
28 Mar 2012