The Climate Change Advisory Council's Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland statutory review of climate action under the climate law used to be one MASSIVE review each year. I'm thrilled we are now releasing individual chapters each month, starting today with Electricity:

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What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view

- Voting tops the list of actions from the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the polls

#ClimateCrisis
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The same students and young people organizing for Gaza are the same kinds of people who have the energy, drive, and discipline to do electoral organizing. In some cases, it's literally the same folks. Were there any worthy candidate they'd be organizing for them.

To all those who said protests make no difference: stick this in your pipe and smoke it.

Trinity College Dublin students showed great solidarity with those suffering genocide in Gaza, and made a *real*, concrete difference.

People power works!!

Eimear Cotter Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Eoin Galavan Prof Lisa Schipper 🌎 ✊ Ruth McManus @[email protected] Darren Clarke Tara Quinn Dr Clare Noone Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE Prof Saffron O'Neill Neil Adger Riad Meddeb Adam Rogers Prof Leo Lades presenting EPA research on behavioural research and climate policy interventions co-authored with Dr. Cara Augustenborg

EPA Research News

New research by Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Shane Timmons shows more work needs to be done to help people understand how what they choose to eat affects #climatechange .

I'll be on Newstalk Breakfast NewstalkFM to discuss

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Most people aren't paying attention but we are waging a massive war on ocean life, killing off entire habitats & species at a dizzying pace. The scale of the damage we're doing to the other life on this planet is honestly too much to fit in your heart.
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Re: last retweet. My kids cycle through this junction. One of them is in IADT. Everyone is devastated. The debate over cycling infrastructure must stop. Dun Laoghaire has been building good infrastructure but the opposition to it is killing people.

Ireland has one of the lower rates of car ownership in the EU.

So why are so many transport abd urban design policies focused on motorists?

This news might actually get people to look up:
RTÉ News: Worst wine harvest in 62 years due to 'extreme' climate
#DontLookUp #climatechange

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A treat for me to get to spend some time at beautiful John Scottus School Old Conna for their #GreenWeek , talking all things climate & environment. 💚

Big thanks to Justin Moran Wind Energy Ireland& 8 of our impressive UCD Environmental Policy alumni, who spoke to current MSc students today about careers in Environmental Policy. -So many diverse opportunities await our students upon graduation from University College Dublin this summer! 💚

Short thread on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC , which brings a huge amount of heat to the northern Atlantic.
If it slows, the region west of Britain cools. And the Gulf Stream moves closer to the US coast, causing warming there.
Both are already happening,

Today, there were two major advances for climate justice that reflect the power of grassroots, community-led advocacy:

The European Court for Human Rights ruled in favor of 2,400 senior women who joined together to sue the Swiss government for endangering the lives of older

The public don’t understand that the olive oil price is skyrocketing because crops in Europe have been devastated by extreme drought because of climate change, and that it’s going to get much worse - or that David Attenborough warns the collapse of the food system is on the

Architectural schools in Ireland are “radically transforming” their curricula and teaching standards to equip the next generation of architects to design low-carbon and sustainable buildings. businesspost.ie/article/archit…

Climate Change is here now.

#RisingTides
Ep 3, Wednesday, RTÉ 1, 9.35pm

Good to hear incoming Taoiseach Simon Harris TD tell the Dáil he's committed to 'An Ireland that protects our children’s future by acting decisively on the climate crisis.'
We need #FasterAndFairer #ClimateAction to keep Ireland within the binding pollution limits set by the Dáil.

19/ 🔥⚖️One cannot overemphasise the significance of the victory of Klimaseniorinnen both:
⚙️ on process (admissibility + right to a fair trial re: climate harms)
🌡️on the substance (critical lacunae in the Swiss climate policies)!

15/ 3⃣Now turning to the Agostinho v. 🇵🇹Portugal and other States. This case involves 6 youth petitioning against 33 European States in total...
A 'David v. Goliath case' commensurable with the stakes of climate (in)action!