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The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
Thursday, 27 February 2020Insider perspectives on the 7 August 2019 approval session and key policy messages
EASAC Climate Change and Health Report Presented at Conferences in Ireland
Tuesday, 3 December 2019Professor Pat Goodman was recently invited to present on EASAC’s latest report at two major Irish conferences
‘Hitting the Sweet Spot’: Media Engagement and Potential Behaviour Change
Monday, 21 October 2019Environmental scholars are worried about the lack of public recognition and behaviour change around how serious climate change is for the future of our planet. Why are we not changing our behaviour and how can we...
Extreme Weather Events in Europe
Wednesday, 28 March 2018Ray McGrath, UCD comments on Extreme weather events in Europe in the latest blog from the Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee
BEHAVE! Examining the role of behaviour change in climate change mitigation and adaptation
Thursday, 22 March 2018Professor Anna Davies, TCD, recounts the ‘BEHAVE’ event hosted by Future Earth Ireland in November 2017.
Negative Emissions Technologies, the Paris Agreement and the Irish Case
Tuesday, 6 March 2018Dr Alwynne McGeever, TCD, outlines her briefing paper on the relevance to Ireland of the EASAC Negative Emissions Technology report in the latest blogpost from the Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee.
“The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.” - Benjamin Disraeli
Friday, 22 December 2017Ray McGrath, UCD, on the publication of the IAP Climate Change and Education Statement.
G&T Tariffs of Climate Science
Thursday, 7 December 2017Rhonda McGovern discusses the recent masterclass “Confronting the Unmentionable – Overcoming the Climate Change Taboo” by Professor Chris Rapley.
What Caused Storm Ophelia?
Wednesday, 25 October 2017Was the exceptional strength of ex-hurricane Ophelia when it hit Ireland on the 16th of October 2017 due to global warming or was it a chance occurrence resulting from natural variability?
Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee Release Expert Statement
Tuesday, 1 August 2017The Academy Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee have launched an expert statement on future storminess.