The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann champions research. We identify and recognise Ireland’s world class researchers. We support scholarship and promote awareness of how science and the humanities enrich our lives and benefit society. We believe that good research needs to be promoted, sustained and communicated. The Academy is run by a Council of its members. Membership is by election and considered the highest academic honour in Ireland.
Read more about the RIAThe Committee for Climate Change and Environmental Sciences is a broadly based body with representatives from third-level institutions in Ireland and Northern Ireland involved in climate and environmental research, as well as representatives from State agencies and other bodies with an interest in this area. The current Committee was formed in 2018 with a four-year term of office. The Committee meets regularly and performs a broad range of functions including, but not limited to, organising outreach events, promoting public engagement, responding to Government consultations and producing expert statements.
There 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 prove more useful than you might expect.
In 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 ignite new growth once vaccines and treatment solutions are available. This 3 stage cycle involves rescue, recovery and transformation to a new form of growth and development once the acute phase of the pandemic is over.
On 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 and climate governance. Its significance is reflected in the fact that the appeal will be heard by a panel of seven judges of the Supreme Court.
The 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.
Charting 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 results is one such choice.
Insider perspectives on the 7 August 2019 approval session and key policy messages
