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Hamilton Day 2020 Review
Friday, 23 October 2020Professor Terence Tao, UCLA, delivered the Royal Irish Academy's 2020 Hamilton Lecture on the topic ‘The Cosmic Distance Ladder’
Top nine final year math’s students get Hamilton Prize
Friday, 16 October 2020Sponsors Ibec see developing STEM talent as a key role in safeguarding Ireland’s economic future.
Creating sustainable futures through a Circular Economy
Friday, 2 October 2020Circular pathways - our future for regenerative and sustainable living.
Old data to the rescue: recovering weather observations to shed light on our past and present climate
Friday, 14 August 2020There are many paper records from the nineteenth century containing handwritten weather observations from various sites around Ireland. Finding these records and rescuing the data from them is not an easy task but could...
COVID-19 recovery and green growth: What is holding up implementation of the Paris Agreement?
Tuesday, 21 July 2020In just a few weeks, the Covid-19 pandemic has led us to mobilise crisis response and best determine how we can live with the pandemic in the short term. The next stage, and one that we eagerly await, is how we can...
Climate Governance and Fundamental Rights before the Supreme Court
Monday, 22 June 2020On 22 and 23 June 2020 the Supreme Court will hear the appeal in Climate Case Ireland, a challenge to the State’s National Mitigation Plan.[1] This case raises important issues of constitutional law, human rights law...
Drought: a risk being overlooked in Ireland?
Tuesday, 2 June 2020The year 2018 revealed the vulnerabilities of Irish society to drought across multiple sectors, particularly water supply, agriculture and ecology. Now, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, another drought is brewing.
Climate, food and health: Critical policy choices in the post-Covid 19 world
Wednesday, 6 May 2020Charting an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will involve difficult choices and trade-offs. Finding the right balance between measures to kick start the economy and policies which require time to deliver...
Dr Yikai Xu wins the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize
Friday, 27 March 2020Dr Yikai Xu was selected as this year’s winner for the most outstanding Irish PhD thesis in the general area of the chemical sciences in the Henkel sponsored prize.
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