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The Lord Mayor of Dublin Alison Gilliland would like to announce that she will sign an agreement in Belfast with the Mayors of Belfast, Liverpool City and Greater Manchester establishing a new cooperative partnership with the cities. The partnership will develop practical approaches to accelerate the delivery of net-zero commitments in each of the 4 […]
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Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris today (Monday, 21 June 2021) awarded the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Future Innovator Prize to a project that will help a dairy farm achieve net-zero emissions by 2027. The prize also awards €2 million to the winner, Professor Kevin O’Connor and his Farm Zero C […]
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Image courtesy of www.iucn.org Working with nature and enhancing the role of ecosystems can help reduce the impacts of climate change and increase climate change resilience. Such an approach can deliver multiple benefits, including lowering pressures on biodiversity, improving human health and well-being, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building a sustainable
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Pictured above: An Cathaoirleach, Cllr Una Power. Image courtesy of Una Power Via Twitter. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council exceeds its 2020 energy efficiency target, as first Climate Change Action Plan is published. Following the February meeting of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, the first Annual Progress Report of the Climate Change Action Plan 2019-2024,
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€121 million in Government funding was invested in Ireland’s sustainable energy transition last year according to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s (SEAI) annual achievements statement published today. This investment included €90 million into building energy retrofits which underpinned €185 million in this rapidly growing sector that will be vital to achieving
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Global agriculture mainly relies on fossil resources for covering most of its energy needs and supporting agricultural productivity in both open-field crop production and controlled environment agricultural constructions. The high fossil fuel use and the deterioration of natural carbon sinks have been related with the anthropogenic impact causing climate change. Novel
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DUBLIN, Thursday October 25th, 2018 – Dublin will be one of 115 cities around the world taking action on climate change this Friday (26 October) at Trinity College Dublin, as part of ‘Climathon’. Climathon, the award-winning 24-hour hackathon unites students, entrepreneurs, big thinkers, technical experts and app developers in tackling the defining climate challenges