While optimistic noises may be made about our progress in limiting emissions, the underlying problem is not being tackled by effective policy measures.
While our EU partners have achieved average emission reductions of 40% since 1990, we have managed a measly 5%.
www.antaisce.org/news/is-the-...
Inconvenient Truths on carbon budget compliance:
'Significant ‘successes’ achieved in recent years have been achieved despite (and even contrary to) Government policy and technical adjustments to recorded GHG emissions'
World events also played a role in reductions
www.antaisce.org/news/irish-g...
Week #374 We managed to escape a downpour! Increasingly erratic weather is part & parcel of the climate crisis that our Govt seems intent on making worse - with plans to abolish the Dublin airport passenger cap, build fossil fuel import terminals, support of nitrates derogation etc.
Week 372 of protest as Govt demonstrates cognitive dissonance, trying to ram through a State LNG import terminal as the climate crisis deepens and Ireland is battered by rain and floods. Contact your TDs & tell them to #KeepIrelandLNGFree put a #MoratoriumOnDataCentres and #KeepThePassengerCap
Week #369 of our weekly protest outside the Dáil from 1 to 2pm on Fridays, demanding #ClimateJustice. Our Government treats the climate crisis like an afterthought, instead of the existential crisis that it is. Come join us any Friday to help shine a spotlight on the dire need for action on climate!
Hi Angela, thanks for creating the Bluesky account for FFFF.
Slight error in the number of weeks - today was 369! That's 7 years, 1 month and 1 week.
I have just signed this petition. It's an issue I care about. Will you sign it too? action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Great article by @orlakelleher.bsky.social on the much propagandised Judicial Review bogeyman.
Developer interests need something to deflect from real failures of a system which has been deliberately designed by them to produce profit, not homes.
@orla-hegarty.bsky.social is such a calm and effective communicator. Here quietly exposing @progressireland.bsky.social’s regressive, but highly influential, deregulatory schtick dressed up as “progress” podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
Very much looking forward to this conversation with @whittledaway.bsky.social around THE LIE OF THE LAND this Sunday from 2pm in @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin City centre.
Do come along if you’re free.
Old fogey friends of FridaysforFuture. Wet & windy Week 361.
I have just signed this petition. It's an issue I care about. Will you sign it too? action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Clear and accessible rejoinder to the 'squash all JRs brigade - except those being taken by developers. See also: www.linkedin.com/pulse/money-...
'The dominion extends into the past. We take our energy by stripping open the earth and burning the remains of former life. In consuming that past, we also consume the future. P. 171.
'Humans have stripped 1/3 of the trees from Earth's surface. We humans outweigh all the wild land mammals by a factor of 20; our livestock weighs 30 times as much as the mammals beyond the fences.' On Freedom @timothysnyder.bsky.social P. 170. Illus. Anton Logov: Close the sky over Ukraine!
I discussed the management of our National Parks earlier with Minister Christopher O'Sullivan. There are positives but we're not at the stage where we can say that the State is managing Parks to a high standard.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Full credit to @autofac.bsky.social, Prof John Sweeney, @hannahdaly.ie & @swimsure.bsky.social for authoritative and persuasive presentations to the Joint Oireachtas Committee.
Global Sumud Flotilla braces for escalating dangers as it approaches Gaza amid drone attacks, Israeli threats.
I've just signed this petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke... @uplift.ie
I've been privileged to get my hands on a review copy of @thinkorswim.bsky.social's fantastic new book which is an important chronicle of Ireland's climate failures (and occasional successes). Lot's of people will want to read this!
Screen grab of paper title, published in Environmental Research Letters, 12 August 2025. Title reads: National temperature neutrality, agricultural methane emissions and climate policy: reinforcing inequality in the global food system. Duffy et al 2025.
🧵THREAD on agri-methane and ‘no additional warming’
Why is it so important to reduce methane (CH4) emissions from agriculture in the near term?
What happens when countries like #Ireland use ‘no additional warming’ to set climate targets?
PAPER: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
(1/18)
If “no additional warming” replaces net zero, is that progress — or backsliding?
Ireland is our case study in a new paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1748...
We found it:
(1)Grandfathers high emissions from wealthy livestock nations, (2)Shifts burden,
(3) Fails on food security
#Methane #ClimateJustice
However, the ongoing & increasing critique of the Irish agri-food sector is ignored by this Review. Scientific, agricultural experts, NGOs & small farmers see it.
Complacency benefits the sector's big profit-takers in the short-term, but the public & nature bear the cost.
The CCAC could say so.
/fin
Friends of #FridaysforFuture, Dublin, Week 344.
‘We live for a few short decades, if we are lucky, on this miraculous planet. It’s remarkable, and we ought to pay attention to its everyday glories. We are nature, you and me; it isn’t something abstract’ @herdyshepherd.bsky.social, James Rebanks.
Friends of #FridaysforFuture, Dublin, Week 343.
‘Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?’
