Reading the Programme for Government that our new Administration agreed you may be enthused, or may be disappointed by the environmental aspects to be found therein. There exists a perceived lack of trust between the people and governments, where environmental matters are concerned, despite the rights we have concerning decisions […]
Unless we make radical changes in 2050, the world will need twice as much water for food production than it takes now. On May 27 2020, the European Commission put forward its proposal for a major recovery plan in which farmers play a key role. Fiona Hayes talks about the significant global […]
Fiona Hayes asks if we’re on on the edge of change with Doughnut Economics, a tool for transformative action first published in 2012, proposing a holistic social foundation and ecological ceiling for the whole world. As many of us are in lockdown and working from home my stepdaughter in Sydney […]
Data is being published from various scientific institutes that monitor the amount of pollution in the air on a global scale as well as by region and by country. Everywhere that we have ‘lockdown’, the levels of Nitrous Dioxide (NO2) and Particulate in the atmosphere have fallen along with Carbon […]
You may have read in the Irish times January 16, 2020 that Coastwatch reported a 50 per cent reduction in litter caused by drinks containers like plastic bottles and aluminium cans on our Irish coastline. Whilst this is excellent news, the 2019 survey also found an increase in plastic shopping bags, […]
Many of us will have looked at the candidates in the general election, as we did in the 2019 local elections and asked ourselves, “Who will take seriously the declared climate and biodiversity emergency?” An equally good question would be, “When elected on a platform of climate and environmental policy, […]
