Interested in what's happening at #IGC2024 ? Here are some of our key figures so far:
20th International Geography Olympiad (Geography Olympiad Ireland)
>3,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
>2,500 talks 💬
>80 countries repping 🌏🌎🌍
We're can't wait to welcome you all to Dublin this August!!

Today is the day! If you’re around Maynooth today, make sure to come by Rhetoric House for this exciting event with some brilliant guest speakers! Still some spaces left to register! Karen Till Maynooth Geography Community Roots Our Shared Plate Deirdre 💚 UCD Geography

Thanks to colleagues Alistair Fraser, Dean Phelan (Ó Faoláin), Gerry Kearns for co-organising our first Maynooth University Festival of Food Sovereignty event! Second festival organised by patrick bresnihan .

NZ sea lions 🦭 are an endangered species needing protection. But Minister of Oceans/Fisheries has scrapped limit on number of NZ #sealions fishing industry can kill. Sign petition to reinstate the mortality limit & support call for more protection! Link: community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/rein…

Thank you Ivana Bacik for bringing up this very important issue in the Dail today. I hope the review that is to be undertaken looks at international examples of how data is shared to create a safer built environment

✨Are you a local adaptation actor navigating the complexities of monitoring and evaluation?

📢Become an IMAGINE Adaptation Case Study imagineadapt.bc3research.org/news/become-an… IMAGINE adaptation BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change

Information webinar: imagineadapt.bc3research.org/event/informat…

This is really important viewing. Hats off to Marcus Stewart Philip Boucher-Hayes and all those contributing to the three episodes!

'We can be #Brilliant and lead on #ClimateAction '

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌎 ✊ The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Prof Michael E. Mann EU Climate Action UNDP at EU Helen Clark Riad Meddeb

Just back from Costa Rica, the 1st tropical country to have stopped & reversed deforestation…..turning bare cattle pasture into densely forested havens for wildlife.

Farmers here get payments for ecosystem services! 😊🦋🐊🦜

#ClimateAction #biodiversity #ecotourism ❤️🌍

Important letter from Iris Moeller of TCD Geography expressing the collective bafflement of geographers about the proposed 'new' leaving cert subject that replicates what Geography already does but risks losing hundreds of years of knowledge + approaches irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Super insights from Prof. Iris Moeller. Why introduce a new Leaving Cert subject on climate action? Geographers have been teaching these issues for years irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

This is an excellent shout - UK-based geographers, there are a number of direct train sail and rail options to get from Dublin to UK and vice versa for #IGC2024 this August ⛴️🚂
You could even make it straight to London for Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), if you're thinking of doing the double...

Fantastic insights from Dr Mary Harris on Eoin MacNeill& Douglas Hyde.She brought humour to Léacht de hÍde,likening Hyde to a walrus with his social nature & iconic walrus moustache! NUI UCD Scoil ICSF #GaelicRevival #IrishHistory #WalrusWisdom rte.ie/brainstorm/201…

Paris did it. Dublin can too. Once stranglehold of traffic is broken, cities thrive, business booms, air quality improves, emissions drop.

And the public LOVE it (but only after it happens).

Inspiring quotes 👇from the excellent finale of Rising Tides. Don't miss all three episodes on RTE Player. Bravo Philip Boucher-Hayes Marcus Stewart and all the team rte.ie/player/series/…

An important opinion piece by #geographer Iris Moeller Iris Moeller on the new Leaving Cert climate action subject and its flaws Geographical Society of Ireland #GeographyMatters irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

'It is simply a necessity for at least some of us to have this overview over the human and physical interactions on our planet, to lead the teams who need to be assembled to find solutions to our self-destructive predicament' Wise words from Iris Moeller irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Prof Peter Thorne introduces Kate Willet from Met Office UK...a truly global expert on surface humidity...brilliant end to visiting presenters at Maynooth Geography Seminar series 2023 to 2024.

Words fail me 😑

Fantastic job Clare on #RisingTides last night. A clear message, we need to re-frame climate action and focus on the benefits it will bring. 👏 @clarekelly.bsky.social Jane Stout Trinity College Dublin

Well done Philip Boucher-Hayes & Earth Horizon Productions on a fantastic series

'start acting collectively and in the common good, demand that the system supports you in doing what you can't do on your own'

'chose to be brilliant' #climateaction 👏 @Marcusstewart & Philip Boucher-Hayes and all who contributed to Rising Tides

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